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Message: [QUOTE="James Kuyper, post: 2385488"] ANSI has always played a disproportionately large role in the development of the C standard, but I don't know how to determine a hard number describing that disproportion. The ISO C committee membership consists of representatives of various "National Bodies" - each one is responsible for technical standards in one nation, just as ANSI responsible for technical standards for the United States. .... Yes. By "the world", what is meant is people who purchase compilers. If those people really demanded C99 compliance, and refused to purchase non-compliant compilers, the compiler vendors would rush to accommodate them. Since there's been no strong demand for C99 compliance, it has come far more slowly. [/QUOTE]