C++ Standard Alphabet Soup

C and C++ are international standards. So if you want, you can visit www.iso.org where they’ll be happy to charge way too much for a copy of the standard. It’s best to let your employer pick up the cost of this.

There are some alternate places where you can obtain draft copies of the standard, if not the standard itself.

www.open-std.org hosts a set of organisations working on various programming language standards. The two of interest to us would be ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 WG14 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 WG21, who produce the standards ISO/IEC 9899:1999 and ISO/IEC 14882:2003 respectively. In laymans terms: the two groups of guys who make the C and C++ standards.

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