The FAQ is about to reach its fourth year since the last update. Steve
Summit's contributions to this newsgroup and C deserve our gratitude.
But it is showing signs of age (such as noting ``Alta Vista'' as a search
engine as opposed to not even mentioning the much more widely-used Google).
There's still even a mention of ``archie'' (does anyone /still/ use that
tool?)
As mentioned in a thread from a year ago, the FAQ also has a number of dead
links. ``Dragging the FAQ kicking and screaming into the 1990's'' is how
Richard Heathfield phrased it.
Presuming that Steve Summit has other obligations, could we (as a community
of c.l.c. participants) brush up on SCS' existing body of work and bring it
up to date. Knowing the need for immediacy of most newbies, those that are
advised to read the FAQ may be discourged when they see a revision date of
2004, regarded as ancient history in internet time.
The core of the FAQ is still relevant (modulo a few C99 items). I'm not
suggesting a rewrite -- maybe just a touch up in a manner that wouldn't
usurp the intent of SCS.