NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/lang/forth/3033

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Subject: Forth Taught at Schools/Universities
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Date: 26 Aug 92 11:51:33 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 2
Message 123       Mon Aug 24, 1992
E.RATHER [Elizabeth]         at 21:41 EDT

Chris Waters writes:

>You need both users and vendors on standards committees.

 Users alone could come up with all sorts of blue-sky nice-to-have.s,

 but have a hard time finding a vendor to implement them.

 Vendors alone would stick with what's easiest for them. I agree that a TC
needs both users and vendors, and I'm happy to report X3J14 has good
representation of both.  But I take exception to the notion that Vendors
"stick with what's easiest for them."  This may be true of PD implementors,
who are after all volunteer labor.  But vendors stick with *what sells,*
because if they don't they're out of business.  The thing I find characterizes
vendor attitudes (my own and others on the TC) is the realization that they
have a significant customer base who have heavy investments in the current
product.  We are always interested in benefitting them or attracting new
customers, but are very reluctant to approve anything that will cause that
current customer base to find their existing code invalidated in ways that
will be expensive or difficult to fix.
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