View source for Standards & Docs

This is a collection of references to essential documentation about programming issues and API standards. Especially it focuses on public available resources, namely stuff which may legally be retrieved from the internet.

==Official Standard Documents==
Often the official standard documents are rather expensive, even if purchased without a hardcopy. So the clever people know where the (final) drafts can be found ... (and they are aware that those are not the "real" standard documents!)

===C===
*ANSI C standard (ISO WG 14)
** ANSI C89 rationale (HTML version)
** ANSI C99 rationale (draft) (also as a PDF, and an older version)
** ANSI C99 standard (draft) (also http, in html and in PDF format)

===C++===
*ANSI C++ standard (ISO WG21)
**Standard (draft, December 1996)
**dto (HTMLized online version)

===Fortran===
*Fortran 77 standard document
*Overview about ISO Fortran standard drafts
**Fortran 95 drafts
**Fortran 200x drafts (here as well)

===un*x & related API References===
*POSIX
:Standard for an operating systems environment, including tools and libc. There are no legal copies available for free
:* Austin Group standard drafts:
::X/Open and POSIX join now to create a unique definition. You can get the drafts for free if you register (at no cost). Latest is draft 7, the final one!
::There's an HTML version of the final standard online.
:* older drafts
*UNIX
**Unix man pages (Single UNIX Specification)
**API, standards reference table (older version)

===Library References===
*X11
**X11 home
**XFree86 - A free X server (including all related programming stuff)
**X11 and related references (man pages)
**Info about Imake
*Motiffi
**Motif home
**Open Motif Docs
**Links to info about M*tif

===Misc Programming===
*Maths Programming, Numerics
**Infos about floating point maths, IEEE 754, etc.
**Drafts for ISO/IEC 10967−1 (standard for language−independent arithmetic (LIA−1))
*Internet Standards
**Requests For Comments (RFC) (alternative site)
**RFC drafts
*UNICODE
**UNICDE standard documents
*Binary Formats
**Object/executable file formats
**List of several file formats

==FAQs==
Frequently Asked Questions are often compiled by some volunteers and made available in the net for free. Of course they also contain some more or less good, precise, valuable answers...
* C FAQ ( alternative site; older version in HTML)
* C++ FAQ
* C++ FAQ lite
* comp.std.c++ frequently asked questions
* Fortran FAQ
* Another Fortran FAQ
* FAQ for un*x programming

==Implementations==
Sometimes it might be helpful to see real−world examples of the standards given above. So I also collect some links to implementations. Take care to read the according docs, which will (hopefully) tell you about the conformance with the related standards.
* Misc un*x Stuff
** Useful UNIX links
** Information about various un*x flavours
** Porting across un*x flavours
* BSD Systems
** FreeBSD
*** FreeBSD sources
*** FreeBSD sources cross−reference
** NetBSD
** OpenBSD
* Linux
** Linux source code reference
** Miscellaneous Linux documentations
** Linux man pages
* Sources, Libraries
** Freely Distributable LIBM (fdlibm) - Missing math stuff can be found here
** cephes - Math library, too

=="Non−Programming" Standards==
One also frequently requires non−programming standards, e.g. when writing documentation, etc.
* SGML & friends
** "WebSGML"
** Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL): last draft of ISO standard
** Extensible Markup Language (XML) (subset of SGML)
** HTML & friends
*** ISO HTML
*** HTML 2.0
*** HTML 3.2
*** HTML 4.01
*** XHTML 1.0
* Portable Document Format (PDF)
** PDF reference
* PostScript (PS)
** Postscript Language Reference

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