  ansi c, also known as c89 and c90 depending on the year of ratification, refers to the family of successive standards published by the american national standards institute (ansi) for the c programming language. software developers writing in c are encouraged to conform to the standards, as doing so aids portability between compilers. ==history and outlook== the first standard for c was published by ansi. although this document was subsequently adopted by international organization for standardization (iso) and subsequent revisions published by iso have been adopted by ansi, the name ansi c (rather than iso c) is still more widely used. while some software developers use the term iso c, others are standards bodyâneutral and use standard c. ===c89=== in 1983, the american national standards institute formed a committee, x3j11, to establish a standard specification of c. after a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ansi x3.159-1989 "programming language c." this version of the language is often referred to as "ansi c". later on sometimes the label "c89" is used to distinguish it from c99 but using the same labelling method. ===c90=== the same standard as c89 was ratified by the international organization for standardization as iso/iec 9899:1990, with only formatting changes, which is sometimes referred to as c90. therefore, the terms "c89" and "c90" refer to essentially the same language. this standard has been withdrawn by both incits and iso/iec. ===c95=== in 1995 the iso published an extension, called amendment&nbsp;1, for the ansi-c standard. its full name finally was iso/iec 9899/amd1:1995 or nicknamed c95. aside to error correction there were further changes to the language capabilities.  ====most important additions to c95==== * improvements to the support for multi byte and wide character char sets in the standard library. * addition of [[digraph (computing)#c|digr
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