Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpb!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C Message-ID: <8659@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 31 Aug 88 23:10:26 GMT References: <8365@smoke.ARPA> <225800053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8374@smoke.ARPA> <509@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> <891@l.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 35 In article <891@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: >As a researcher, I find it >necessary to glance at more than 200 journals. I certainly missed the >announcement in CACM (one of my lower priority journals). So you, as a *researcher*, wanted to know if anything spectacular was happening in the C language development community. Did you start your research into this subject by looking at a journal designed for this group? From what you have posted so far, this does not appear to be the case. >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. And most R&D computer people do not read Science. Do mathematicians and statisticians make important announcements in the CACM? I think not. >How about asking >the physicists and chemists and astronomers and geologists and biologists? >(Apologies to the groups left out are in order.) Apologies NOT accepted! If you can't come up with the definitive list of places where this information should be published to reach everybody who might even be remotely interested in this, why are you expecting anyone else to be able to? Also, how many of these groups are really interested in codifying existing C practice (as the X3J11 charter clearly mandates), or are they just interested in getting their 'wish list' kludged into the language (as you seem to be)? -- _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ..!att!ihlpb!nevin1 (312) 979-4751 IH 4F-410 ' ) ) NEWS FLASH ... ... ... I GOT A PHONE!! / / _ , __o ____ (and there was much rejoicing ... yeaaa.) / (_