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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX standardization
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.093659.5576@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 5 Dec 90 09:36:59 GMT
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cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes:
>The following message is something I picked up in the comp.lang.rexx newsgroup
>   From: CATHIE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
>   Subject: ANSI to Develop Standard for REXX

>    It is anticipated that the REXX standard can be completed in 1992.

Boy have they got a rude shock coming.  Four years minimum, six more likely.

Sigh.  Consensual standards are such fun.  Worse yet, they're not going
to standardize REXX, they're going to "improve" it.  Add three years.

Best wishes, folks.  You have my sympathies.

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>


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