ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (07/18/90)
Category 18, Topic 89 Message 12 Tue Jul 17, 1990 GARY-S at 07:47 EDT Subject: Re: How will others see ANS Forth? In article: <9913@pt.cs.cmu.edu> koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman)writes: >> Phil - IF you do go to that much trouble, we will be happy to make >> the GEnie Forth Real-Time Conference facility available for this > >My question about whether the X3J14 committee as a whole would listen is: >would a bona fide CS expert/language designer giving constructive >criticism result in corrective changes to the standard, or just be >dismissed with a comment such as "he just doesn't understand?" How can you know the end result of ANY sociological experiment until you have actually performed the test, or a significant prelude test ? >How about an application engineer who actually has to use it? >It probably is not worth his time or mine unless there is enough >interest that we actually get requests to do this. Also, if we can't >dig up at least 3-5 reviewers, there clearly is not enough interest Do I hear any volunteers who are willing to pose the questions and referee such a discussion ? Remember - impartiality would be required. ___ _ Gary Smith --> co-SysOp, GEnie Forth RoundTable / _' _ _ (_ P. O. Drawer 7680 * ph:501-227-7817, fax:501-228-0271 * /__/ (_|_/ '__) Little Rock,AR 72217 * winken!well!gars *claris!wet!gars * - U. S. A. - * ames!chinet!gars * ark!lrark!gars * ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated process. Report problems to: uunet!willett!dwp or willett!dwp@hobbes.cert.sei.cmu.edu