Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!appserv!sun!quintus!dave From: dave@quintus.UUCP (David Bowen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: ANSI Standard Prolog Keywords: ANSI, Prolog Message-ID: <1532@quintus.UUCP> Date: 30 May 91 02:13:02 GMT References: Reply-To: dbowen@quintus.com (David Bowen) Organization: Quintus Corporation Lines: 49 In article jfl@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (John Lenarcic) writes: > >Does anyone know of any articles/papers dealing with the proposed >ANSI Standard Prolog ? >Also, does anyone know the name ( and e-mail address ) of the >Chairperson of the ANSI Standard Prolog committee ? >Your help will be most appreciated. Many thanks. I am the Chairperson of X3J17 which is the Technical Committee working towards an ANSI standard for Prolog. We are working closely with the corresponding ISO (International Standards Organization) committee, WG17, which has been working on a Prolog standard for some years now. Our hope is that we can influence WG17 to produce a standard which we can adopt as an ANSI standard, since there would be nothing to be gained by having incompatible ISO and ANSI Prolog standards. People outside the U.S.A. who would like to know more about the standardization effort should contact the convenor of WG17: Roger Scowen National Physical Laboratory Teddington Middlesex U.K. TW11 0LW Phone: +44 81 943 6956 Fax: +44 81 977 7091 E-mail: rss@seg.npl.co.uk WG17 has produced a series of working draft standards. The very latest one is called WG17 N72 and is due to be published about now. Contact Roger Scowen if you want to get a copy. Within the U.S.A. we need more people to participate in X3J17. We are only a small group at present, perhaps because many people are afraid of being publicly lambasted by Richard O'Keefe if they participate. Anyone who cares about the future of Prolog and thinks that they might like to get involved should contact me for further information. My address is: David Bowen Quintus Corporation 2100 Geng Rd Palo Alto CA 94303 U.S.A. Phone: 415-813-3800 Fax: 415-494-7608 E-mail: dbowen@quintus.com