Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!jrdzzz.jrd.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!jit345!diamond From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: How Standards? Message-ID: <1991Apr17.044001.10727@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 17 Apr 91 04:40:01 GMT References: Sender: usenet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: diamond@jit345.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Distribution: comp Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 28 In article hagerman@ece.cmu.edu (John Hagerman) writes: >How does ANSI work? Can/will ANSI C continue to evolve? It will, exactly as ANSI Fortran, ANSI Cobol, and others have evolved. It might be the way ANSI/ISO Pascal evolved (by giving the new language a modified name instead of supplanting the old one), but this was unusual. >Is there any point in my thinking about what I'd change in the language, That's a matter of personal opinion. >or in posting such thoughts here for comment? Such posts will likely draw flames until the committee begins work on a new standard, maybe in about 4 years or so. I believe there's another newsgroup now for C futures. >Is it possible for me to get my thoughts into serious consideration Yes, but you'll have to wait for the call for public comments on the new standard. >with little pain? No. (Some people would put a smiley on this, but it's really pretty accurate.) -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.