| Gary Scott 2006-09-19, 7:02 pm |
| James Giles wrote:
> Jan Vorbr=FCggen wrote:
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> Deliberately.
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> See, you still don't understand. You want to make it the fault
> of *users* if they abandon Fortran because the committee failed to
> convince them that it was a viable choice. Frankly, such a user
> won't care. Having abandoned Fortran it won't matter at all
> what the committee's opinion is. They're not s ing redress
> for their lost civil rights, they've moved on. The committee on
> the other hand will be presiding over a dying language.
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> Enumerate for me the means, short of meeting attendance
> (membership), that an ordinary user has of participating in
> the standardization process. I still see only the brief (and not
> widely known) interval during which suggestions for features
> can be made and the briefer interval at the last for public
> review. The former is largely ignored anyway since there's no
> followup discussion with the users that made the suggestions
> or with other users that might agree that it's worth pursuing.
> The latter is a little too late to qualify as participation. And,
> it's also often ignored unless it's *overwhelmingly* negative.
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I'm certain that there is a better way to gain wider public=20
participation that is valuable and efficient. I don't believe that it=20
will significantly reduce the need for face to face working meetings to=20
finish out the process. But I don't know of any good tool sets that=20
would facilitate that over the internet. Email is not palatable, nor=20
news-group style postings. It would need to be some sort of interactive =
tool (wiki-like perhaps) but with strong edit/comment access controls.
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Gary Scott
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