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From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: so much for X3J3
Keywords: WG5, standard, wasted everybody's time
Message-ID: <24032@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 5 Apr 89 00:58:04 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In the March 20 Digital News there is an article on pg.8 about the new
standard and relations with WG5.  

" [X3J3 and WG5]...have agreed on content for a draft proposal, and 
members of each	are voting on documents that are essentially the same..."

"However, several members of the ANSI X3J3 committee said that their
group had capitulated to pressure from its parent committee,
ANSI X3, to stay in line with the ISO group, and that the new
draft proposal essentially ignores the  public comments that
killed the last draft proposal".

If I feel cheated from having spent time reading the draft standard and
writing comments, what about all the folks who put in so much time and
effort?

Whose standard is this anyway?

Oh well.  The article reported that "The language has been simplified;
identify [sic] and arrange [sic] [????] statements, and depreciation of
features have been removed; ...".  The pointer attribute, allocatable
arrays and non-advancing I/O were also mentioned as being added.

dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 ms k710/los alamos national laboratory
los alamos, nm 875545/dd@lanl.gov (arpa)/dd@lanl.uucp(new)/..cmcl2!lanl!dd
If aliens were doing to the Earth what we're doing to the Earth,
we'd be a war.