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From: lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: volatile isn't necessary, but it's there
Message-ID: <10197@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 88 15:22:35 GMT
References: <7794@alice.UUCP> <10068@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <765@xyzzy.UUCP>
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In article <765@xyzzy.UUCP>, meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
|Then where were you?

Right here in sunny Columbus Ohio.

|Seriously, yes the ANSI C committee is top heavy
|with implementors, but very few users have ever come to the meetings.
|We do have a few users (around 8 out of 45ish voting members).  In fact,
|one of the "users" spent his own money to attend.

I would have loved to participate, but circumstances
prevented it.  Most others users must be in the same boat.

AT&T was represented so it probably would have been improper
for me to do so independently, I will write to ANSI though.

Of course vendors are usually heavy users too, but I don't
ever recall AT&T formally asking developers throughout the
company for input into the standardization process.  Noone here
had any say in it.  Too bad, I think AT&T is going to pay through
the nose in the long run if and when it ever switches to ANSI-C.
People have a hard enough time learning to use C effectively now.

-- 
Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems and Ohio State University
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