From tbutler@Rational.Com Tue May 23 20:26:59 2000 Received: from mailgw.rational.com (mailgw.rational.com [130.213.254.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA64938 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:26:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tbutler@Rational.Com) Received: from mailhub.rational.com (mailhub [130.213.131.8]) by mailgw.rational.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/RATIONAL-mailgw) with ESMTP id LAA00919; Tue, 23 May 2000 11:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boston.rational.com (point0.lex.rational.com [172.21.6.50]) by mailhub.rational.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/RATIONAL-mailhub) with SMTP id LAA26982; Tue, 23 May 2000 11:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 192.88.237.67 by boston.rational.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 23 May 2000 14:26:28 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Received: from kinetic (kinetic.atria.com [192.229.60.148]) by lexmail0.rational.com (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA04695; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:25:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kinetic.atria.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kinetic (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA10138; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:27:08 -0400 Message-Id: <200005231827.OAA10138@kinetic> To: "Keith Bierman (SunLabs)" cc: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1810) Word or PDF for distributing WG5 documents X-Mailer: mh6.8 Reply-to: tbutler@Rational.Com In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 23 May 2000 11:12:16 -0700. <200005231812.UAA64908@dkuug.dk> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:27:07 -0400 From: Tim Butler Keith Bierman (SunLabs) writes: > If we aren't planning on changing our internal behavior, and if we aren't > planning on trying to take formal action ... is there any particular reason > why we have to have this pub debate via email??? I'm sure I'm not the only former member that has found it amusing, as well as refreshing to be on the outside. :-) Interestingly, the "90% use it" argument could also be used to argue that J3 ought to be shut down in favor of C/C++. ;-) tim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tim Butler Rational Software Corp - CMBU Phone:(781) 676-7509 email: tbutler@rational.com FAX:(781) 676-2420