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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
-
- >Submitted-by: jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler)
- >... the likelihood of issuing over the next few years, bad
- >standards, is high. The best single way of improving the odds, is
- >widening the review process...
-
- I'd like to strongly support Jeffrey's comments. I simply do not have time
- to wade through all the paper; my involvement with 1003.2 review, in
- particular, depends on either having someone else do that for me, or
- having online access to pieces of drafts. Being able to FTP relevant
- parts of 11.2 made it an order of magnitude easier to properly review
- the regular-expression stuff and the awk definition (which meant picking
- up various other pieces for context, e.g. the character-set stuff)...
- and I found half a dozen significant problems with each as a result.
-
- In case anyone is wondering about details, I make use of both the plain
- ASCII version and the PostScript version, the former for grepping when
- looking for something specific, and the latter for reading as a whole.
- If I had to make a choice between them, the PostScript is marginally
- preferable.
-
- I don't object to buying a copy of the final standard, even though I
- tend to grit my teeth at the cost, but online access is just the only
- way to review parts of drafts properly under time constraints.
- --
- "Breakthrough ideas are not | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- from teams." -- Hans von Ohain | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 26, Number 91
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