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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: <1991Mar26.005640.8282@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 26 Mar 91 00:56:40 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.195732.15376@appmag.com> <10146@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Mar22.202121.26272@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <8583@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 <8583@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>In article <1991Mar22.202121.26272@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>> 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.
> 
>> 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.
>[stuff deleted]
>The real problem is that these standards committees feel that restrictive
>standards are needed, instead of great flexibility, and that efficiency may
>involve doing what is not even thought of at the time.

I agree with that.  I just don't like character assasination.  Complain
about what they're doing, or how they're doing it, not about their mental
and moral abilities.

>--
>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)


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