>         Note that 'ANSI C' is a nineties phenomenon.  In a few years
    >         (when us old programmers die out) the designation 'full-C'
    >         will become synonomous with 'ANSI C', and K&R will be the
    >         stuff of legend.

    Strange, I was using compilers that had most of the then-draft ANSI
    language, at least aside from the more obscure or new features, by the
    middle of the last decade.

It was definately the 90's before we started using (in a multi-megabyte C
embedded system) Ansi style function definitions (void foo (int a, char *b))
rather than K&R style definitions (void foo(a,b) int a; char *b;), and you
can still generate a heated debate by suggesting that certain functions be
converted to their ansi counterparts...

BillW