The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the United States administrator and coordinator for the voluntary private-sector standards system. Its statement of purpose is the "enhancement of global competitiveness of United States business and the American quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems and promoting their integrity". An example of a computer area that ANSI is involved with is programming languages. ANSI-standard programming languages (such as FORTRAN, COBOL, and C) are those that conform to ANSI recommendations, thus eliminating variations that could cause problems in transferring a program from one computer system to another. Therefore, ANSI C is a version of the C language that has been approved by ANSI. As a result, all ANSI C compilers, regardless of the company that manufactures them, should operate...