Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!brainerd From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: FIRST public review - response finally Message-ID: <590@unmvax.unm.edu> Date: 15 Dec 89 19:40:21 GMT References: <587@unmvax.unm.edu> <14172@lambda.UUCP> <589@unmvax.unm.edu> Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque Lines: 29 In article , khb@chiba.sun-bb (chiba) writes: >> >> 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. > I guess I should have provided my conclusions. The job was of heroic proportions. Therefore, it is just hard for me to conceive that someone opposed to the end result would take the job at all and complete it, let alone put into it the superhuman effort needed to try to do it and meet all of the expectations of both X3J3 and the reviewers. This may be characterized as an ugly implication, but I would call it a simple fact of human nature. How much (if any) this affected the results perhaps we will never know. The only good that I hope to accomplish is to perhaps give people not on X3J3 an appreciation of the difficulty of doing all of this so they don't fuss so much about the content and timing of the responses, but instead keep on fighting for the technical changes they desire. -- Walt Brainerd Unicomp, Inc. brainerd@unmvax.cs.unm.edu 2002 Quail Run Dr. NE Albuquerque, NM 87122 505/275-0800