8 Oct
2006
8 Oct
'06
8:40 p.m.
Robert Ramey wrote:
The library standard doesn't "work". It can't. It's not code. The standard doesn't include an implemenation. And once we have a reference implementation which can be compiled on a language conformant compiler, what is gained from the work required to add it to the standard?
Wider audience, multiple competing implementations, availability. You can depend on the standard library being available for use even if for administrative/legal/whatever reasons no third party code is allowed on a project.