From lrajchel@ANSI.org Mon Aug 21 17:14:58 2000 Received: from email1.ansi.org (mail.ansi.org [165.254.114.6]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA07999; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:14:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lrajchel@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:14:01 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B21515FE@email1.ansi.org> From: Lisa Rajchel To: "'sc22info@dkuug.dk'" Cc: "'Simonsen, Keld'" Subject: SC 22 N 3153 - SC 22/WG 3 Business Plan/Convener's Report Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:14:00 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) _____________________beginning of title page ____________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3153 TITLE: SC 22/WG 3 Business Plan/Convener's Report DATE ASSIGNED: 2000-08-21 SOURCE: L. Dickey, Convener, SC 22/WG 3 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other (Defined) PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document will be discussed under Agenda Item 8.1 at the JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary Meeting. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI to SC22 Member Bodies DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Lisa Rajchel ANSI 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4932 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: lrajchel@ansi.org _____________________end of title page ____________________________ Business Plan and Convener's Report ISO/IED JTC1/SC22/WG3 - Programming Language APL 2000/08/08 Period Covered: September 2000 - August 2001 Submitted by: Leroy J. Dickey Convener, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 3 Department of Pure Mathematics University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Email: ljdickey@uwaterloo.ca > 1. Management Summary 1.1 JTC1/SC22/WG17 Statement of Scope Development and maintenance of ISO/IEC standards related to programming language APL 1.2 Project Report 1.2.1 Completed Projects JTC 1.22.09.01 Programming Language APL 1.2.2 Projects Underway JTC 1.22.09.02 Character Repertoire for APL This project has been submitted and approved for registration. See JTC1/SC22/N3067 or http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~ljdickey/apl-rep/tables/ It is intended for inclusion with IS 8485. JTC 1.22.24.01 Programming Language Extended APL. The technical work and editing work, in consultaion with Geneva, for Programming Language Extended APL is complete. The technical work was completed in June 2000. This final copy for this project will probably be communicated to Geneva before the Nara meeting of SC22. JTC 1.22.24.02 Character Repertoire for Extended APL. The text to be published for this project is identical that of to Project JTC 1.22.09.02. See above, or JTC1/SC22/N3082. The distinguishing characteristic is that Character Repertoire for APL (1.22.09.02) will be published alongside IS 8485, whereas Character Repertoire for Extended APL (1.22.24.02) will be published alongside IS 13751. 1.2.3 Canceled Projects ISO/IEC DIS 13751 Programming language Extended APL was cancelled, but it has been re-incarnated as ISO/IEC DIS 13751-2 Programming language Extended APL The affirmative voting for re-registration was announced in August, 2000. 1.3 Cooperation and Competition 2. Period Review 2.1 Market Requirements APL is a general purpose computing language that finds it most important applications in those areas that benefit by the organization of their date in arrays. The biggest groups user are those in management of financial and actuarial data, but it is also used by one of the largest airlines in the world. Two major financial houses have developed dialects of APL for their own internal use. There are rumours that one of these might enter the public domain in the near future. The vendor of another dialect of APL called J has now holds its own user conferences. Adherants to this language think that it may replace APL. 2.2 Achievements DIS 13751-2 has been re-registered this year. (Project JTC 1.22.24.01, Programming Language Extended APL) One document pertaining to both of these projects JTC 1.22.09.02 Character Repertoire for APL JTC 1.22.24.02 Character Repertoire for Extended APL. has been circulated and approved in the past year. 2.3 Resources The working group WG3 meets as needed, usually once a year, and works mainly by electronic correspondence between meetings. This year nine experts from six countries, namely Canada, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France, Denmark and United States of America, and one of the experts was a liason person from the Association for Computing Machinery. 3. Focus Next Work Period To complete the revised text for the APL Character Repertoire. 3.1 Deliverables The text for IS 13751 is completed. It will probably be delivered before the meeting of SC22 to be held in September. 3.2 Strategies None. 3.2.1 Risks WG3 suffers form a decline in official support for standardization. One volunteer was discouraged from participation when the national member body imposed an unreasonable expectation of the time commitment required to to the job (half time). Two other volunteers have been discouraged by national mamber bodies who set financial hurdles too high. 3.2.2 Opportunities There is need for a new standard for moving data between APL applications. Three APL vendors are cooperating in the implementation of SCAR "Self Contained Array Representation". The APL Character Repertoire has aided in this effort. WG11 might find this interesting, since the developers claim that they can use this scheme to communicate not only between sessions of different implementations of APL but also with applications running in other languages. 3.3 Work Program Priorities (1) APL Character Repertoire (2) Perhaps SCAR. 4. Other Items In future, it is likely that the APL working group will move into a maintenance mode and stand prepared to answer questions about interpretation. 4.1 Action Requests at the Forthcoming Plenary Renewal of IS 8485 Re-appointment of convenor. 4.2 Schedule None. 4.3 WG17 Meetings 4.3.1 Recent Meetings Berlin, 2000-07-23. 4.3.2 Future Meetings None scheduled at this time.