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Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review

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From: Technically Sweet
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 22:53
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johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:

>But so far
>nobody has come up with a plausible way to make up for the lost revenue
>that ANSI needs to stay in business.  An advantage of the current system
>is that standards are paid for by people who actually use them.

A disadvantage of the current system is that 95% of the standards
arrived at are technically garbage.  Down with ANSI!

X, FDDI, PEX, OSI, ...  The last really good one was Ethernet,
and they had that forced down their throats.


-- 

Lance Norskog

Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
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From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 22:53:12 GMT
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