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From: psmith@mozart.uucp (Presley Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Review document (was: Two Fortran Standards)
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Date: 28 Aug 89 14:26:52 GMT
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In article <310@unmvax.unm.edu> brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) writes:
>In article <1599@convex.UUCP>, psmith@mozart.uucp (Presley Smith) writes:
>> 
^  In a conversation last week with CBEMA headquarters, Jean-Paul Emard, who
^  is the Director of the X3 Secretariat, told me that CBMEA could not
^  stop the distribution by Lahey Computer Systems, but that the proposed
^  standard that Lahey is distributing is NOT considered an "official copy"
^  of the proposed standard.  
 
^^   Incidentally, the function of ANSI should not be to try to figure out how
^^   they can stop the distribution, but to figure out ways to _encourage_
^^   distribution of the document.  I hope that Presley and I agree on that.

   I certainly agree.  I would like to see it published in SIGPLAN and 
   other places for the widest distribution possible.   I only report what
   I've been told...