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From: joseph@chromo.ucsc.edu (Joseph Reger)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C (a scientist speaks up)
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Date: 22 Aug 88 21:20:49 GMT
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In article <8365@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <4566@saturn.ucsc.edu> joseph@chromo.ucsc.edu (Joseph Reger) writes:
>>The draft may not be 'badly broken' but is missing out on the opportunity
>>to make C a convenient language for numerical computing as well.
>
>
>The fundamental problem is that IT IS MUCH TOO LATE to be making
>significant changes to the proposed standard.

It seemed to me - and I admittedly did not follow it from the very beginning -
that it was always MUCH TOO LATE.

>It's easy to complain about other people's work; much easier than
>helping with the work.  I suggest that you GET INVOLVED in drafting
>the NEXT (revised) standard.

I certainly will.

Joseph Reger, 	joseph@chromo.ucsc.edu