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From: nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: In defense of the X3J11 committee
Message-ID: <1561@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 89 23:50:45 GMT
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In article <10474@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

|Of course it took
|time and a modest amount of other resources ($175 to $200 annual fee,
|plus travel expenses) to participate fully, so if one really didn't
|care enough about C standardization to make this investment worthwhile
|then I suppose one would not have been able to exert as much influence
|as would otherwise be the case.

How much is your time worth?  Did you work on ANSI C 1/4 time, 1/2
time, or just "spare" time.

When it all gets figured in, I doubt that it is just a "modest" amount
of resources.

|That seems fair to me.

Fair, yes.  Cheap??  I think not.
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