Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lanl!beta!dd
From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: yes vs. no on f8x
Keywords: f8x, x3j3, wg5, ansi
Message-ID: <24130@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 12 Apr 89 03:53:08 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Of course someone can present the negative side of F8X to an
audience and get them to be negative, and similarly for the
positive side.  Neither is relevant, really.  I think I could
do an adequate job either way.

What's really needed is a short pro vs. con document, perhaps
by x3j3 committee members.  Distributed by network and by
interested organizations it would be more useful than watching
competing claims go by on the net.  It would probably reach
more people, too.

A properly done document would help to create that "informed
opinion" that Keith Bierman wants (*).

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
(*) but if that opinion disagrees with him, I get the impression that
it would still be "uninformed".  At least that's the way his
postings read to me...