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Nobody is obliged to implement a new standard. C90 is a Standard, C99 is another one. 'Newer is better' is a fallacy. SQL 92 Intermediate Level e.g. is the most important SQL Standard.
True. Do you know if SQL 92 is finally fully supported across DB servers? This was a nightmare back in the early 90's.
1990 C90 2000 C99 2011 C11 so, if this is the trend expect a new C standard in 2022.
True, but new standards don't mean that they get support in all compilers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_%28C_standard_revision%29 Microsoft as typical bad boy attitude already said it only cares about C89, as everything else can be done with C++ anyway. And as they don't care about portability this is unlikely to change, unless they are pressured to change like it happened with IE…