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From: psmith@mozart.uucp (Presley Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x seminar
Keywords: Fortran standards
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Date: 7 Apr 89 23:43:03 GMT
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In article <26@unmvax.unm.edu> brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) writes:
>
>Fortran 8x is Coming!
>
>The next Fortran standard will be approved soon, hopefully in the
>next year.  If your organization has applications programmers
>or implementers who need to understand the implications of the adoption
>of this new standard, you may be interested in a one-day seminar outlining
>highlights of the new standard, consequences of the new facilities for
>implementors, and important considerations for those planning to use
>the new featurews of the language.
>
>Topics covered include:
>Array processing
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>Conversion considerations
>
>I (Walt Brainerd, Director of Technical Work for ANSI X3J3)
>will be the presenter at the location of your choice.
>Call for cost, etc. or send e-mail if you are interested.
>
>505/275-0800  brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu
>2002 Quail Run Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122

Just to clarify a couple of things in this "ad",  Walt is a long 
standing member of X3J3 and is the keeper of the document that 
is being produced by X3J3.   He in no way directs (as in Director)
the work of X3J3.  The committee does what it VOTES TO DO and 
Walt then takes what the committee has accepted and adds, deletes,
and corrects the document that will be forwarded to X3 for the next
public review.   Walt gets 1 vote the same as any other member
of the committee.

Walt knows a lot about the new proposed standard because he's
lived with it for many years.  He has been a key contributor
to this standard and certainly well versed in what is in the 
current proposal.  

Also, Walt has always voted YES on the proposed standard.  In the 
last ballot on S8.110 taken in the committee, there were still 12
NO votes.  I doubt that you will get the negative view represented 
as part of any seminar that Walt might present.