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From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Fortran 88
Keywords: fortran standards
Message-ID: <2045@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 88 04:06:23 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
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Another point I forgot to mention previously (the significance of which
you can puzzle over for yourself) in response to someone who noted that
the Europeans seem to represent the consumer viewpoint more than X3J3:

The document favored by ISO/WG5 was put into its final form by five
people on X3J3 who all represent users; the hardest opposition is
coming from some of the vendors.