Organization for Standardization (ISO), have jointly developed the definitive standard for
the C++ language.
Why have standards? You encounter the benefits of standardization every day. When you
buy a light bulb, you can be assured that it fits in the socket without having to measure the
socket at home and the bulb in the store. In fact, you may have experienced how painful the
lack of standards can be if you have ever purchased a flashlight with nonstandard bulbs.
Replacement bulbs for such a flashlight can be difficult and expensive to obtain.
The ANSI and ISO standards organizations are associations of industry professionals
who develop standards for everything from car tires and credit card shapes to programming
languages. Having a standard for a programming language such as C++ means that you can
take a program that you developed on one system with one manufacturer’s compiler to a different
system and be assured that it will continue to work.
To find out more about standards organizations, check out the following Web sites:
www.ansi.org and www.iso.ch.
Standards Organizations
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