(j3.2006) Fwd: [prog_lang] [Chairs] For Action: 2012 Five-Year Maintenance Review of National Standards - Recommendations Due by June 27, 2012

[David Muxworthy]

On Jan 27, 2012 Bill Long wrote:

> Is "Abstain" an option?   I don't have sufficient
> information to make a yes/no decision.

On 28 Jan 2012 Dan Nagle wrote:
> 
> I've tried voting Abstain due to ignorance and so on,
> but PL22 feels that the INCITS EB will simple repeat
> the question.  I voted abstain on a question regarding
> a robot control language, and I was the only one.
> My knowledge of robot control languages is rising towards zero.

'Abstain for lack of expertise' is a perfectly honourable vote.
BSI uses it when appropriate.  Too many countries seem to vote
'yes' it's not clear that anyone has even read the document.

> My concern is that PL22 becomes a dump for any unanswerable
> questions the world dumps on INCITS.

Well, all the things on that list apart from Smalltalk are
SC22 projects and Smalltalk would have been if it had ever
been proposed to JTC1.

David