Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Re^2: Scheme standard approved Message-ID: <18988@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 13 Dec 90 15:46:48 GMT References: <9012101321.aa19682@mc.lcs.mit.edu> <440@data.UUCP> Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development Lines: 28 In article ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes: >i am curious, though, if having the standard approved means that only >paper copies from the ieee are legal, and that ftp copies are no >longer going to be available. _that_ would be a pity, and would, in >my opinion, be a defect in the ieee policy. Ted, I too would like to have the final versions of IEEE standards (at least some of them) in the machine readable form, and I wish I can argue for this in the appropriate forum. On the other hand, it appears that IEEE is way ahead of some other stardards bodies, such as CCITT or ISO in this respect just by making the drafts available in machine readable form. I know of people (including myself) who would give anything (well, almost anything :-) to have even a portion, say 1/3 of a CCITT blue book draft of, say X.500 on-line, even for a limited time. Well, I guess this problem too will be lousy-old-days history someday. >scheme is a bright spot in the bleak landscape of computer languages. Um? I thought the quote was "Scheme is a jewel in the muddy landscape of Computer Languages". [and I thought I said that 8-)] oz --- Where the stream runneth smoothest, | Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca the water is deepest. - John Lyly | UUCP: utzoo/utai!yunexus!oz