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From: rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
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Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C
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Date: 24 Aug 88 19:35:03 GMT
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In article <8374@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <225800053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>you are going to know about it only AFTER the standard gets approved,
>
>I'm pretty sure the formation of X3J11 was announced in CACM, and it
>has been well known in the C community for years (e.g. "The C Advisor"
>and other regular columns).  I don't think it made the TV network news.

Doubtless.  But we were talking about the numerical community, they
generally don't read CACM.  So, was it announced in, say publications
of the AAAS or the IEEE?  (NOTE: I'm not saying it wasn't, I don't
know, and I'm curious)

Rob Carriere