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From: buckland@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
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Subject: Re: Fortran 90 status
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Date: 26 Apr 91 20:09:03 GMT
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In article <15972@smoke.brl.mil> chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey) writes:
>
>What are the relative merrits of smaller, incremental changes every
>5-6 years, versus these monstrous rewrights every 12-15 years?

 Smaller or more incremental, or not, I'd expect them to argue just
 as long, and I'd expect the formal rituals to take just as long;
 I doubt they could complete *any* change in a mere 5-6 years.
 Point (ii) is that with a change every decade or so we get a
 chance to use each version for a while before the next one starts
 looming on the horizon.