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

[John Dallman]

In article <tb68hj$132fp$1 at dont-email.me>, 
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:

> In the same way as the police have no motivation to reduce the 
> overall number of criminals in society (after all, if you reduce 
> the number of criminals, you reduce the number of police required),
> standards bodies have no motivation to declare a language 
> "complete", because if they do, they will be out of a job.
> 
> I wonder if we've reached the point where some standards bodies keep
> adding features for their own benefit (ie: to keep them in a job),
> instead of for the benefit of the software developers they claim to
> be working on behalf of ?

For the C++ standards, the committee members are mostly from industry: 
<https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/wg21>

John