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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Vendor representatives on committee
Message-ID: <11663@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 21 Nov 89 22:54:49 GMT
References: <11134@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <15217@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1643@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Nov17.205004.19236@cs.rochester.edu> <1653@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11645@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Nov20.124013.28617@algor2.algorists.com> <1662@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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In article <1662@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
-I do think there was some bias toward
-eliminating features which would be hard to implement, and some were
-(almost) added because they would aid optimization.

But note, many users (as well as vendors) want improved "optimization".
There are also often user benefits to other issues one might think
"vendor-inspired".