Do you have Standards Committee in your language?

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#21

Author: Just_Curious
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:54

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All,

Thinking about role of Standards Committee in my favorite
language (Fortran) I decided to hear advice from folks in other
languages first.

What is the role of Your Language committee?

Does Your Committee expand horizons and enlightens compiler
developers with their recommendations? Or opposite,
not being creative, they are working like brake for language
development and experimenting and in fact are negative among
users?

Do you think that compiler vendors and users themselves are not
able to maintain backward compatibility without such committees?

And in general, do you see some analogies between Language Committees
and other regulations in other areas of real life ?

I think these questions are of common interest.
This is post in several language compiler newsgroups,
hence please mention your language unless you specially
don't want this. You may find responds on other languages
searching Deja with subject as above

cheers

Re: Do you have Standards Committee in your language?

#23

Author: "Steve (vrml3d.c
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 21:22

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Mark McIntyre <mark@garthorn.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bf7jgto087o0282r4a01rksbkglgi7mjqc@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 21 May 2001 14:54:49 -0700, Just_Curious
[snip]
>
> Why not read about it over at ANSI/ISO's websites?

Because the OP wants to hear what we think of them, not what they think of
us.

--Steve

Re: Do you have Standards Committee in your language?

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Author: "William M. Klei
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:14

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There have been SEVERAL recent threads in comp.lang.cobol concerning the
Standards "process" (for COBOL) - and whether or not it is broken, meeting
user demand, under-staffed or whatever.  You may want to check out any
"archive" of newsgroups for items with "standard" in the subject line.

--
Bill Klein
 wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Just_Curious" <Just_Curious@my-deja.net> wrote in message
news:3B098EA9.B3895E50@my-deja.net...
> All,
>
> Thinking about role of Standards Committee in my favorite
> language (Fortran) I decided to hear advice from folks in other
> languages first.
>
> What is the role of Your Language committee?
>
> Does Your Committee expand horizons and enlightens compiler
> developers with their recommendations? Or opposite,
> not being creative, they are working like brake for language
> development and experimenting and in fact are negative among
> users?
>
> Do you think that compiler vendors and users themselves are not
> able to maintain backward compatibility without such committees?
>
> And in general, do you see some analogies between Language Committees
> and other regulations in other areas of real life ?
>
> I think these questions are of common interest.
> This is post in several language compiler newsgroups,
> hence please mention your language unless you specially
> don't want this. You may find responds on other languages
> searching Deja with subject as above
>
> cheers
>

Re: Do you have Standards Committee in your language?

#22

Author: Mark McIntyre
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 00:00

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On Mon, 21 May 2001 14:54:49 -0700, Just_Curious
<Just_Curious@my-deja.net> wrote:

>All,
>
>Thinking about role of Standards Committee in my favorite
>language (Fortran) I decided to hear advice from folks in other
>languages first.
>
>What is the role of Your Language committee?

Why not read about it over at ANSI/ISO's websites?

--
Mark McIntyre
CLC FAQ <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html>

Re: Do you have Standards Committee in your language?

#25

Author: gmc444@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:57

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Just_Curious <Just_Curious@my-deja.net> wrote in message news:<3B098EA9.B3895E50@my-deja.net>...
> All,
>
> Thinking about role of Standards Committee in my favorite
> language (Fortran) I decided to hear advice from folks in other
> languages first.
>
> What is the role of Your Language committee?

For Eiffel, this is detailed at
http://www.eiffel-nice.org/

Re: Do you have Standards Committee in your language?

#26

Author: Mark McIntyre
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:30

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On Mon, 21 May 2001 21:22:25 -0400, "Steve (vrml3d.com)"
<comments@vrml3d.com> wrote:

>
>Mark McIntyre <mark@garthorn.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:bf7jgto087o0282r4a01rksbkglgi7mjqc@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 21 May 2001 14:54:49 -0700, Just_Curious
>[snip]
>>
>> Why not read about it over at ANSI/ISO's websites?
>
>Because the OP wants to hear what we think of them, not what they think of
>us.

The questions "do you have a committee" and "What is the Role of your
Standard committee" are not, to my interpretation, asking an
opinion....

The rest of his post, in my view, simply asked me to say what the
committee did, which their mission statement can probably answer
better.

Plus it was a troll.

--
Mark McIntyre
CLC FAQ <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html>

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