C and C++

The C standard is ISO/IEC 9899:1999. This is `C99', replacing the previous 1989 standard for ANSI C (plus an amendment AM1 (1995) and two corrigenda TCOR1 (1995) and TCOR2 (1996)). The ANSI version of this ISO standard, ANSI/ISO/IEC 9899-1999, is available for (currently) $18 from <webstore.ansi.org>.

The ISO committee which looks after C is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, working groups WG14, C and WG21, C++.

The C++ standard is ISO/IEC 14882:1998 (available for $283 from webstore.ansi.org). The 1997 second Committee Draft is available online for free, and the NCITS adoption of this standard, INCITS/ISO/IEC 14882-1998, is available for $18 from webstore.ansi.org.

• The excellent C FAQ (text-only version) contains substantially more than you realised you wanted to know about C.
• Style guides include the famous Indian Hill C style guide. The source for this is a tar archive, but there are various HTMLisations of it around the place: such as this one. Within that, section section 16, on portability, is good. There are several other style guides and C tutorials mentioned in the C FAQ, including those in sections 17.9 and 18.9.
• Starlink C programming standard SGP/4. C style guide (specific to Starlink, and arguably a little dated, now).
• Gary Ferland (of Cloudy) produced some notes on converting Fortran to C which is ``a preliminary version of a document that would have helped me [Ferland] during my C learning experiences''. The motivation for this was the conversion of Cloudy from Fortran to C.
• C++ resources
• Boost.org is a collection of portable C++ source libraries, originally begun by members of the C++ committee, but now somewhat expanded.