It will never cease to amaze me that standards bodies whose sole purpose is to help everyone coordinate by creating and distributing a standardizing document that everyone involved should read and conform to are so reluctant to share the document. Here, they offer to email it to you if you ask nicely in the form of emailing an Excel file, and that's unusually permissive. Surely some of these standards bodies should be interested in proactively telling people what their standards are.
STE used to cost $2900 USD for the print copy. So . . baby steps, I guess?
STE, unlike Simplified English or International English or its many cousins, has what I like to call the "ISO Kiss of Death". Basically, with IKoD, you get a cabal that takes over a spec, and then it defends the spec like a kung fu master defends his secret style. Thing is, the cabal also mandates how documents get written, so now you have to go to the secret Kung Fu School to learn the Secret Style if you want to, yknow, deliver a product.
This can go on for decades, multiple decades, before something maybe breaks the chain - some busybody in procurement, or a major national embarassment, or an overactive journalist revealing how making a PDF file managed to cost two hundred million dollars. Or someone raising their hand and saying, um, sirs, very sorry to interrupt, but this is all common capability in the Lands Outside the Secret Temple.
Fighters from secret temples never amount to much.
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It will never cease to amaze me that standards bodies whose sole purpose is to help everyone coordinate by creating and distributing a standardizing document that everyone involved should read and conform to are so reluctant to share the document. Here, they offer to email it to you if you ask nicely in the form of emailing an Excel file, and that's unusually permissive. Surely some of these standards bodies should be interested in proactively telling people what their standards are.
STE used to cost $2900 USD for the print copy. So . . baby steps, I guess?
STE, unlike Simplified English or International English or its many cousins, has what I like to call the "ISO Kiss of Death". Basically, with IKoD, you get a cabal that takes over a spec, and then it defends the spec like a kung fu master defends his secret style. Thing is, the cabal also mandates how documents get written, so now you have to go to the secret Kung Fu School to learn the Secret Style if you want to, yknow, deliver a product.
This can go on for decades, multiple decades, before something maybe breaks the chain - some busybody in procurement, or a major national embarassment, or an overactive journalist revealing how making a PDF file managed to cost two hundred million dollars. Or someone raising their hand and saying, um, sirs, very sorry to interrupt, but this is all common capability in the Lands Outside the Secret Temple.
Fighters from secret temples never amount to much.
Believe it or not they used to charge for a copy of the standard as well.
As a C++ user, I definitely believe it.