Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!sun-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.sun-bb (chiba) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: FIRST public review - response finally Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 89 18:04:28 GMT References: <587@unmvax.unm.edu> <14172@lambda.UUCP> <589@unmvax.unm.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 40 In-reply-to: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu's message of 15 Dec 89 01:58:04 GMT In article <589@unmvax.unm.edu> brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) writes: a) Creating the responses was one heck of a lot of work. True. The key problem, as I see it, are the rules. It is very, very hard to get consensus on the technical issues. Asking the group as a whole to then agree on what was done and why is generally futile. The resulting explainations are, by their very nature, less than lucid. b) The person in charge of doing them has been a strong opponent of adopting the new standard. While true, there is the ugly implication that this person acted in a less than professional manner. IMHO said person has demonstrated a much higher level of professionalism by taking on a hard and obviously distasteful task, and doing it well. The rules and procedures are at fault, not the implementor of the "will" of X3J3. (* I am using a new news reader/poster, so if my sig is duplicated, my apologies. *) Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. !! kbierman@sun.com It's Not My Fault | MTS --Only my work belongs to Sun* I Voted for Bill & | Advanced Languages/Floating Point Group Opus | "When the going gets Weird .. the Weird turn PRO" "There is NO defense against the attack of the KILLER MICROS!" Eugene Brooks -- Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. !! kbierman@sun.com It's Not My Fault | MTS --Only my work belongs to Sun* I Voted for Bill & | Advanced Languages/Floating Point Group Opus | "When the going gets Weird .. the Weird turn PRO" "There is NO defense against the attack of the KILLER MICROS!" Eugene Brooks