[Python-Dev] Numerical robustness, IEEE etc. (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 07:11:05 CEST 2006

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SC22WG14? is that some marketing academy? not a very good one, obviously.

That's because it's European ;-) The ISO standards process has highly visible layers of bureaucracy, and, in full, JTC1/SC22/WG14 is just the Joint ISO/IEC Technical Committee 1's SubCommittee 22's Working Group 14 . JTC1 is in charge of information technology standards; JTC1/SC22 "programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces"; and JTC1/SC22/WG14 the C programming language. POSIX lives right next door in TC/SC/WG space, at JTC1/SC22/WG15.

IOW, these are the friendly folks who define what C is. In America, it's usually just called "the ANSI C committee" instead, probably for the same reason Americans prefer intuitive names like "mile" and "gallon" over puffed up technical gibberish like "metre" and "litre" ;-)

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