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Article #113Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 03:20
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 03:20
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In article <#7-nz!r.thinman@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
>johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>>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.
That list could hardly be considered a condemnation of the ANSI
standardization process, since none of those were developed using that
process. X and PEX were developed privately by consortia, FDDI was
developed by CCITT (or maybe IEEE or ISO, I'm not sure), and OSI is being
developed by ISO.
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.std.misc Subject: Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review Date: 24 Aug 1992 03:20:59 GMT Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <179kirINNhr1@early-bird.think.com> References: <CHYDE.92Aug20173445@pecos.ads.com> <1992Aug21.163403.7918@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> <#7-nz!r.thinman@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com