I disagree there pretty heavily. There are a lot of C implementations out there -- gcc, clang, msc, icc, keil, cscript, tcc, pcc, etcetc. The big reason C hasn&#x27;t turned into a similar Tower of Babel is that the various stakeholders in C recognize that it&#x27;s a living language, and get together regularly to help work out methods that aren&#x27;t useful anymore and add features to the specification to reflect what modern programmers want. If C had stopped standardization when ANSI C was released, you&#x27;d see a similar number of variants.