From brian.meek@kcl.ac.uk Wed Aug 7 11:52:52 1996 Received: from cayman.kcl.ac.uk (cayman.kcl.ac.uk [137.73.66.10]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA07181 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:52:46 +0200 Received: from mail2.kcl.ac.uk by cayman with SMTP (PP); Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:51:18 +0100 Received: from pc150.kcl.ac.uk (cardamom.cc.kcl.ac.uk) by mail2.kcl.ac.uk (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11892; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:35:58 +0100 From: Brian Lawrence Meek Sender: stqp6834@kcl.ac.uk To: D Muxworthy Cc: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: "WG5" meetings Message-Id: Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:37:37 -0400 (EDT) Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows Version 4.0.7 X-Authentication: none Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I was at the very first "Fortran experts" meeting in Den Haag, as well as the first "real" meeting in London. It was my very first ISO meeting, the one of the famous "Hague agreement" of which foundation of the experts groups was a part. I can't recall which day it was, however: Tuesday or Wednesday I think. I have a feeling there was only one session, though there might have been two. As far as I recall it was arranged because the Cobol folk had asked SC5 for an international group to help "internationalise" the development of the Cobol standard and the Fortran folk said "us too please". In fact that first meeting as far as I remember did discuss whether to have a group - a resounding "yes" - and bits about possibilities for the first full meeting. But there was also discussion about the need to start immediately on another revision (after F77) and what might be in it. I wonder if we'd have been quite so keen, had we foreseen what was to come! I also sat in on the "Algol experts" meeting - Johan van Wingen was there too. At the same meeting first I (because Tony was delayed by storms in the North Sea) and then Tony Addyman presented the UK proposal for Pascal. So one way or another it was quite a momentous meeting - though it WAS the first SC5 meeting for five years! Incidentally, a reminder to anyone interested in the history of IST/5 that there was my piece in Fortran Forum of Oct 1990, "The Fortran (not the Foresight) Saga" which gives one person's (biassed and idiosyncratic!) view of this period of Fortran history, which does refer to many of the meetings Gerhard listed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Meek, King's College London Computing Centre -----------------------------------------------------------------------------