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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Fortran 88
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Date: 20 Oct 88 16:53:00 GMT
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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:
It certainly looked to me from the list of about 400 responses that
was posted on the net that the "consumers" from the US were more
opposed than for. The European responses constituted the core of the
yes votes. I don't see how Europeans should expect their "votes",
if you can call them that, should count at all for a US standard.