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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Throwing stones at standard committee (was Cheating on the types)
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.202121.26272@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 22 Mar 91 20:21:21 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.195732.15376@appmag.com> <10146@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <10208@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <8517@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <8517@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>...  These
>are important considerations which the language designers do not seem 
>to be able to understand.
>--
>Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
>Phone: (317)494-6054
>hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)   {purdue,pur-ee}!l.cc!hrubin(UUCP)

It's easy to sit back and throw stones.  Have you sent ONE concrete proposal
to X3J3?  Have you attended a meeting?  Have you corresponded with ANY member
on a topic relating to the language standard?  Have you asked your employer /
sponsor to foot the bill for you to join the committee?

If you don't like something about the way the language is designed, propose
an alternative, don't insult the people who worked hard to get what we have.

-- 
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