C and C++ want people to use them, but make people pay for the standards. Sure, you can download a draft, but it's not guaranteed that's what's in the standard.

What is the point of a standard if you disable people from conforming to it?

And it costs $250 (without the resellers discounts).

I've tried for so long to come to terms with why this pay-wall exists but the defenders always climb the "Pay the developer. Hurr Durr" bandwagon. It isn't even paid to the devs. It's for ISO as an organization.

Fuck this model man.

If it is an ISO standard EU and Asian countries can only buy compliant products

@Demolishun I don't need explanations of the standard. I need THE standard.

I wonder, is the standard even required to be upholded as the holy grail or is it just a tool to make your C++ implementation "legally" compliant.

@3rdWorldPoison The former. Especially in C/C++, standards mean a lot.

@junon Maybe I'm still not experienced enough with the language to appreciate it :P