[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/19/2022 7:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/19/22 17:54, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/19/2022 3:03 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> I really think it is time to drop the concept of academia generating
>>> standards and create a standards body concept made up of and run by
>>> the practitioners of the IT world.  I think it would get corporate
>>> support because they stand to profit from it in the long run.
>>
>> That is not how reality is.
>>
>> It is not academia that are creating the standards.
>>
>> The standards workgroups are filled with compiler vendor
>> people and some people from big companies using the compilers.
>> Very few people from universities.
> 
> If not academia, then who's bright idea was it to put OO in COBOL
> when no one using it wanted it and the user community soundly rejected
> it.

ISO X3J4 & JTC1/SC22/WG4 did that.

I cannot find a current member list.

But in 1997 (and that must have been around the time when they started
discussing OO) the member list was:

Tom Rizzo - Computer Associates
Jeff Friedman - Computer Associates
Jerome Garfunkel - COBOL Research Group
Lee Unterreiner - COBOL Research Group
Raymond W. Fisher - Electronic Data Systems
Artur Reimann - Fujitsu Software
Michael Acks - Hewlett-Packard
Ann Wallace - IBM
Barry Tauber - Interleaf
Don A. Schricker - (Chair) Microfocus
Donald F. Nelson - Tandem
John R. Brieschke - Unisys
Stephan Spiro - Wizard Systems

Very much business and probably a majority of Cobol vendors.

Arne