Topic: Buying the C++ Standard [Was: Defect Report: Copy-initialization in brace-enclosed initializer lists]
Author: hofmann@anvil-soft.com ("Matthias Hofmann")
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:47:27 GMT Raw View
"James Dennett" <jdennett@acm.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> ANSI sells a PDF copy of 14882:2003 for US$30. It's
> also available in hard copy from bookstores for $75
> or often less (in the US); the ISBN is 0470846747
> according to amazon.com. Other national bodies may
> also sell copies.
ANSI seems to sell the following versions of 14882:2003:
INCITS/ISO/IEC 14882-2003 ( $30.00 )
ISO/IEC 14882:2003 ( $299.00 )
Now what is the difference between the two?
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Author: "Matthias Hofmann" <hofmann@anvil-soft.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:26:41 CST Raw View
"James Dennett" <jdennett@acm.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Matthias Hofmann wrote:
>> "James Dennett" <jdennett@acm.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> news:VU%Kg.14700$lv.3606@fed1read12...
>>
>>> ANSI sells a PDF copy of 14882:2003 for US$30. It's
>>> also available in hard copy from bookstores for $75
>>> or often less (in the US); the ISBN is 0470846747
>>> according to amazon.com. Other national bodies may
>>> also sell copies.
>>
>> ANSI seems to sell the following versions of 14882:2003:
>>
>> INCITS/ISO/IEC 14882-2003 ( $30.00 )
>> ISO/IEC 14882:2003 ( $299.00 )
>>
>> Now what is the difference between the two?
>
> Without having checked, I expect that $30 buys a PDF copy,
> whereas $299 buys a hardcopy. I don't imagine they sell
> many hardcopy versions, given that essentially the same
> standard is available in bookstores for a quarter of the
> price.
The details about the $299 version specify a file size of 2.35 MB. That does
not sound like a hardcopy. Besides, there is an additional "INCITS" in its
name, which seems to stand for "InterNational Committee for Information
Technology Standards", located on the web at www.incits.org.
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Author: hofmann@anvil-soft.com ("Matthias Hofmann")
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:40:30 GMT Raw View
"Matthias Hofmann" <hofmann@anvil-soft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>> Without having checked, I expect that $30 buys a PDF copy,
>> whereas $299 buys a hardcopy. I don't imagine they sell
>> many hardcopy versions, given that essentially the same
>> standard is available in bookstores for a quarter of the
>> price.
>
> The details about the $299 version specify a file size of 2.35 MB. That
> does not sound like a hardcopy. Besides, there is an additional "INCITS"
> in its name, which seems to stand for "InterNational Committee for
> Information Technology Standards", located on the web at www.incits.org.
I have to correct myself: The $30 version is the one titled "INCITS/ISO/IEC
14882-2003", while the $299 version is missing the "INCIT" in its name. The
only version available on www.iso.org is called "ISO/IEC 14882:2003" and
costs CHF 352.00, which is currently 284.64 US dollars.
It seems like the "INCIT" version costs only about 10 percent of the other
one. However, both are sold as PDF versions, so how is the difference in
prices justified?
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Matthias Hofmann
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