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From: alm@a.lanl.gov (Alex Marusak)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Brainerd Comments - Response
Message-ID: <758@a.lanl.gov>
Date: 20 Oct 88 18:24:37 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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>From brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu Mon Oct 17 22:01:18 1988
>
>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.

Representing users is a tricky business.  In spite of our best
efforts, the user community disapproved of Fortran 8x by about
2 to 1 in the public review.

To 'represent users' and simultaneously continue to advocate the full
Fortran 8x puts one, I think, in the awkward position of repudiating
the publicly stated majority views of the very group one is trying
to represent...

Alex Marusak, X3J3 member from Los Alamos National Laboratory.