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Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.3160) Resolutions from SC22 plenary meeting
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On Sep 10, 2004, at 16:28, Richard E Maine wrote:

> Resolution 04-01 a bit puzzled me in its application to us, but I 
> guess we'll
> see more after taking a look at N3784.  ...It is hard for me to tell 
> exactly what they
> want from the resolution alone; might turn out to be nothing from us.

As Roger Scowen says in N3784, ISO/IEC 2382-15:1999 Information 
technology -- Vocabulary -- Part 15: Programming languages, and its 
previous incarnations, were produced independently of SC22.  Roger is 
being diplomatic when he says, "The reaction [in SC22 to requests to 
review the CDs] was largely apathetic but with a small amount of 
disdain and derision".  I seem to remember that in BSI they were 
treated with groans and laughter at some of the grossly misleading 
definitions.

Nevertheless a standard for terminology was seen as having some value 
particularly for non-native English speakers.  Roger seems to have done 
a huge amount of tedious clerical work in pulling together terms from 
12 language standards and miscellaneous other documents.  I suggest the 
best way to respond to the SC22 resolution is first to ask him exactly 
what information, and what level of detail, he would like on Fortran.
David

