Subject: SC 22 N 3321 - National Activity Report of Canada for 2000-2001

From: Matthew Deane <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:07:56 -0400

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI)
 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3321
 
TITLE:
National Activity Report of Canada for 2000-2001

DATE ASSIGNED:
2001-10-05
 
SOURCE:
Canadian National Body

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DOCUMENT TYPE:
National Body Contribution

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STATUS:
This document was reviewed at the SC 22 Plenary under Agenda
Item 7.2.

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FYI
 
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Canadian National Activity Report
Plenary Meeting JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary Meeting
September 2001

National Activities for Canadian International Standardisation

The Canadian Standards Association Committee on Programming Language acts as
the JTC1SC22 Canadian mirror . Meetings are held quarterly. CPL has the
following working groups
WG3 - APL
WG4 - COBOL
WG9 - Ada
WG13 - Modula II
WG14 - C
WG15 - POSIX
WG19 - Formal Description - VDM and Z
WG20 - Internationalisation
WG21 - C++
We have terminated our participation in Java.

As with other countries, we have ongoing challenges with membership. This is
largely due to the maintenance nature of all languages. We have no solution
to the issue, except to actively solicit newly developing languages. Perhaps
the new JTC1 International Workshop process may be useful to the
introduction.

Our only issue at the beginning of the meeting is with the operation of
WG20. At the previous plenary it was decided that WG20 should continue. We
note that in the past year, CLAUI, which is a co-ordination meeting between
3 groups with a fixed agenda, has been cancelled twice. We recommend that
the convenor be proactive in keeping WG20 functioning.