From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Aug 13 22:38:00 1997 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA16762 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:37:58 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA27670 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:37:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2556 - UK National Body Report - PLENARY ITEM Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ___________________ 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 N2556 August 1997 TITLE: United Kingdom National Activity Report for the August 1997 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: This Report will be considered under Agenda Item 7.2 at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: United Kingdom National Activity Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for information. Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net _____________________ end of title page; beginning of report ____________ UK National Body activity report, September 1996 - August 1997 The UK equivalent of SC22 is BSI IST/5 Programming Languages. As most of you are aware Brian Meek, Chairman of IST/5 passed away at the beginning of July. For over thirty years, Brian devoted great efforts towards International standardisation, as an editor, as a chairman, as an author of books, reports and standards, and as a tireless campaigner for the virtues of standardisation. His belief in standardisation included the standardisation of the process itself. After working on the standards for FORTRAN and ALGOL, he became a leading proponent of the Language Independent standards. The impact of his passing on the UK and International Standards arena has yet to be fully appreciated. Technical work Almost all of the technical work of IST/5 is in relation to SC22 projects, and it maintains technical panels which co-ordinate the UK contribution to the SC22 WGs in which the UK is active. These panels advise IST/5 on matters such as letter ballots. The UK provides the secretariat and convenor for WG5 FORTRAN, WG17 Prolog and WG19 Formal Specification Languages, in the case of WG19 maintaining technical panels for both VDM-SL and for Z. We are also active in, and maintain panels for, WG4 COBOL, WG9 Ada, WG11 Bindings, WG 13 Modula-2, WG14 C, WG15 POSIX, WG16 Lisp, WG21 C++ , WG22 PCTE and the Java Study Group. We are not currently active in, and do not have a panel for WG3 APL. Our participation in WG 20 Internationalisation is currently under review. The UK has played host to a number of International meetings in the past year, including the SC 22 Plenary meeting 1996, SC 22/WG 9 Ada, SC 22/WG 14 C, SC 22/WG 15 POSIX, SC 22/WG 21 C++ and the JAVA Study group. Syntactic metalanguage ISO/IEC 14977 : Extended BNF has been published, and BS 6154 will be withdrawn shortly in its favour. ______________________ end of SC22 N2556 _______________________________