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From: chris@metavax.UUCP (Chris Collins )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: F8X: MODULE vs. INCLUDE
Message-ID: <3038@metavax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 22:14:13 GMT
References: <1112@ut-emx.UUCP> <6690013@hpclcdb.HP.COM> <1167@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@metavax.UUCP (Chris Collins )
Organization: Meta Systems, Ltd. -- Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <1167@ut-emx.UUCP> reeder@ut-emx.UUCP (William P. Reeder) writes:
>In article <6690013@hpclcdb.HP.COM>, cdb@hpclcdb.HP.COM (Carl Burch) writes:
 
>> As for X3J3 only standardizing "existing practice", that's equivalent to
>> saying that only vendors should be allowed to do language design.  One of
 
>I just hate the idea of committees doing design work.  I would like to
>think that the vendors have a small number of folks doing design work,
>most of the team being programmers who implement the design.  There
>are also researchers at universities doing design work.
 
I have to agree with Mr. Reeder here, in that standardizing committee's
should not do language design.  The reasoning is that the committee,
I would guess, does not go home, implement the language change, and 
then use it for a while to see if it is really a good idea. 
Secondly, it also means that changes are, again, hopefully, out a real
need from a user, instead of any other reason (it looks good; it might
help it compete with other languages; etc.)

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