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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Who is the X3J11 committee?
Message-ID: <638@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 90 20:58:47 GMT
References: <670@sagpd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <670@sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:

| That rambling introduction brings me to my question.  Who was on the committee
| and what were their qualifications?  And if Joe Blow wanted to be on one what
| qualifications would he need?  And no I am not volunteering for the next
| standards committee so you can stop jotting my name down right now :-)

  I was on the committee for the first two and a bit years, and my only
qualification was that I had been teaching C for various GE and outside
companies for 3-4 years, and had been doing a lot of portability work in
the company.

  I left the committee because the time it required distressed my
management, and the group I was in at that time was not charged with
that kind of work. If there is another standard I expect to be on the
committee again, since I'm now in the right group.

  As far as I know the only real qualification is working for a company
which will pay $300/year and T&L. For most of the ttime I was there I
was one of only two "C users" who didn't work for a company which sold a
C compiler.
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