On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, John Chambers wrote: > | <snip> I'm not up to > | date with the work on the standard, is there still a commission > | working on what to include in the standard? I really think this work is > | extremely important if abc is to have any future. > > What seems to have happened is more or less consistent with the past > work on abc. The (semi-official) standards committee started with the > idea that what it needed was a clear formulation of abc version 1.6 > as a standard, and has worked on codifying that. New features are to > be put off until the current standard is established. Of course, this > is of little relevance to people who need things not covered by > version 1.6, so those of us have continued on our merry way inventing > random extensions for our own use, and wondering if the standards > folks will ever catch up.
Ok, who's in the committee, where can one follow the progress of their work, and what do they have to say? -- Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
