From derek@knosof.uucp Sun Feb 13 17:28:56 1994 Received: from eros.Britain.EU.net by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA15344 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Sun, 13 Feb 1994 18:35:03 +0100 Received: from pyra.co.uk by eros.britain.eu.net with UUCP id ; Sun, 13 Feb 1994 17:34:40 +0000 Received: by knosof.UUCP (anilla/UUCP-Project/rel-1.0/11-05-86) id AA16384; Sun, 13 Feb 94 17:28:56 GMT Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 17:28:56 GMT From: derek@knosof.uucp (Derek M Jones) Message-Id: <9402131728.AA16384@knosof.UUCP> To: c++panel@pyra.co.uk, cpanel@pyra.co.uk, ist5@pyra.co.uk, wg14@pyra.co.uk, wg15@pyra.co.uk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 All, One of the items discussed at the C panel meeting last Thursday was the announcement of impending withdrawal of secretariat funding for SC22. Various ideas have been bouncing around the UK about the creation of a number of smaller SC's (formal languages, POSIX, languages etc). The idea being that smaller SC's would make it easier to attract funding. The C panel came up with the concept of commercially important working groups. The others being not so commercially important. So if say C, C++, Cobol, Fortran and POSIX were to be grouped together to form a new SC it ought to be much easier to attract funding than if the minority interest languages were also included. It is about time that standards work for languages such as Modula-2 and Basic stopped hitching a lift on the coat tails of the much more commercially important languages. derek