ANSI ISO C++ Professional Handbook

ANSI ISO C++ Professional Handbook: "

In 1989, the American National Standards Institution (ANSI) committee for the standardization of C++ was established. The official name of the committee was X3J16, and later it was changed to J16.

Generally, standardization committees don’t write a standard from scratch; rather, they adopt an existing de facto reference, and use it as their baseline. The ANSI C committee used The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie as a starting point. Likewise, the ANSI C++ committee used the Annotated C++ Reference Manual (ARM) by Ellis and Stroustrup as its base document. The ARM provided a clear and detailed starting point for the committee’s work. The committee’s policy was to not rush into establishing a half-baked standard that would become obsolete in a year or two. Instead, the policy was to allow the demands for changes to emerge from the users of the language, the C++ community. Nonetheless, the committee also initiated extensible modifications and changes to the language, such as runtime type information (RTTI) and the new cast notation.

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