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Article #5290Re: Third public review of X3J11 C (a scientist speaks up)
From: Joseph Reger
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1988 21:20
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1988 21:20
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In article <8365@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: >In article <4566@saturn.ucsc.edu> joseph@chromo.ucsc.edu (Joseph Reger) writes: >>The draft may not be 'badly broken' but is missing out on the opportunity >>to make C a convenient language for numerical computing as well. > > >The fundamental problem is that IT IS MUCH TOO LATE to be making >significant changes to the proposed standard. It seemed to me - and I admittedly did not follow it from the very beginning - that it was always MUCH TOO LATE. >It's easy to complain about other people's work; much easier than >helping with the work. I suggest that you GET INVOLVED in drafting >the NEXT (revised) standard. I certainly will. Joseph Reger, joseph@chromo.ucsc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!ig!agate!saturn!chromo!joseph From: joseph@chromo.ucsc.edu (Joseph Reger) Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C (a scientist speaks up) Message-ID: <4581@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 22 Aug 88 21:20:49 GMT References: <64919@sun.uucp> <8358@smoke.ARPA> <4566@saturn.ucsc.edu> <8365@smoke.ARPA> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: joseph@chromo.ucsc.edu (Joseph Reger) Organization: Physics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 20