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From: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C
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Date: 29 Aug 88 19:06:45 GMT
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In article <891@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
| I do not believe it appeared in _Science_, the journal of AAAS.  Now most
| mathematicians and statisticians do not read any of the above named journals.
| How about including the _Notices_ of the AMS, the _Bulletin_ of the IMS,
| and the appropriate information journals of SIAM and ASA?  How about asking
| the physicists and chemists and astronomers and geologists and biologists?
| (Apologies to the groups left out are in order.)

Complain to the X3 parent body then.  They are the ones that are
responsible for publishing when Ansi committees are formed, when the
public reviews are, etc.  They have a list of journals that they send
such annoucements to -- maybe the journals you read didn't wish to
include it, or their backlog is too large to be able to print such
annoucements.  Several announcements were made on Usenet stating a new
C standard was started four years ago.  I participated in an early
USENIX BOF on the C standard, and others have done so in more recent
times.  I recall that somebody made the observation that if you really
wanted to reach the mass of C programmers, Ansi should have made the
announcement in the funny papers the last time this discussion came
up. :-)

In case you wish to complain, the address for the X3 secretariat is:

	X3 Secretariat
	Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
	311 First Street, N.W. Suite 500
	Washington, DC 20001-2178
-- 
Michael Meissner, Data General.

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