Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lanl!a!alm
From: alm@a.lanl.gov (Alex Marusak)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: so much for X3J3
Keywords: WG5, standard, wasted everybody's time
Message-ID: <863@a.lanl.gov>
Date: 11 Apr 89 18:53:49 GMT
References: <24032@beta.lanl.gov> <97753@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <24066@beta.lanl.gov> <98041@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Some comments cry out for a response:

In article <98041@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, khb@fatcity.Sun.COM (fatcity) writes:
> .....
> Wrong. The sad fact is that the much of the US public comment was
> clearly misinformed....  Of the comment that was sensible,
> much was accepted. It should be noted that the informed commentators
> requested basically what WG5 did....
> 
Some of us on X3J3 disagree with the sentiment expressed above.

There will be a second public review period for Fortran 8x.  If you
are one of the people who took the time and made the effort to comment
the first time around, and you felt a jolt of adrenaline upon reading
that "The sad fact is that much of the US public comment was clearly
misinformed...", you will have another chance to comment.  Do so.