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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
- Subject: Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review
- Date: 24 Aug 1992 03:20:59 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <CHYDE.92Aug20173445@pecos.ads.com> <1992Aug21.163403.7918@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> <#7-nz!r.thinman@netcom.com>
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- In article <#7-nz!r.thinman@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
- >johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
- >>An advantage of the current system
- >>is that standards are paid for by people who actually use them.
- >A disadvantage of the current system is that 95% of the standards
- >arrived at are technically garbage. Down with ANSI!
- >
- >X, FDDI, PEX, OSI, ... The last really good one was Ethernet,
- >and they had that forced down their throats.
-
- That list could hardly be considered a condemnation of the ANSI
- standardization process, since none of those were developed using that
- process. X and PEX were developed privately by consortia, FDDI was
- developed by CCITT (or maybe IEEE or ISO, I'm not sure), and OSI is being
- developed by ISO.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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