Public
- Public
- Network
- Groups
- Featured
- Popular
- People

Page 110 of UNIX/WORLD magazine, July 1985. A large headline reads "THE C STANDARD IS COMING" with the letter C styled in white on a black square. Below it, "PART 2" appears on the left, followed by the article text by Steve Hersee. The article discusses the progress of the ANSI X3J11 C standards committee, covering the December 1984 meeting hosted by Motorola in Tempe, Arizona, where 29 voting members were present. It describes debates over whether the draft standard document was ready for formal comments and concerns about the committee being rushed.

Download link

Page 110 of UNIX/WORLD magazine, July 1985. A large headline reads "THE C STANDARD IS COMING" with the letter C styled in white on a black square. Below it, "PART 2" appears on the left, followed by the article text by Steve Hersee. The article discusses the progress of the ANSI X3J11 C standards committee, covering the December 1984 meeting hosted by Motorola in Tempe, Arizona, where 29 voting members were present. It describes debates over whether the draft standard document was ready for formal comments and concerns about the committee being rushed.
https://media.ominous.net/media_attachments/files/116/183/246/504/024/424/original/642c64fbd8f4ca1e.png

Notices where this attachment appears

Embed this notice
occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Mar-2026 20:25:42 JST occult
in reply to

It's summer, 1985.
I get a call from my buddy to open this month’s issue of UNIX WORLD magazine to page 110.
I see they are preparing to standardize the C programming language.
I say, “This is a good thing" under my breath.
I am still punk as fuck.

In conversation about a month ago from vox.ominous.net permalink