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On 23/06/2013 12:41:11, Steve wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:00:24 -0700 (PDT), Alex McDonald
> <blog@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 13, 6:28 am, Steve <nospam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:03:49 -0700 (PDT), Alex McDonald
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > <b...@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>> > > On Jun 10, 3:51 am, Steve <nospam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > Alex McDonald <b...@rivadpm.com> Wrote in message:
>> >
>> > > > > On Jun 4, 7:59 am, Steve <nospam...@gmail.com> wrote:.
> 
>> Yet you're the guy that wants a new standard. Or perhaps I read you
>> way back; you want to complain about standards, standards committees
>> and those that contribute time and effort to them. You want someone
>> else to do all the work, and have it end up the way you want it.
>> Right?
> 
> I doubt you read me correctly.
> 
> So, you made a decision about me, then based all your thinking on it.
> I agreed with the top poster, why not hassle him, or anybody that
> agrees with him. No, it is good what he said, but I want to write my
> own standard for something past forth.  If Forth matures more, that
> is great, I can use it.  Just on the laws of averages there must be
> some truly great people on standards committees, as well as others.
> On a proper committee, there should be many truly great people, if
> not all, no party, no put your hands up and get involved, quality all
> the way through.  That is my version of a committee.  However,
> individual work of a genius can outdo a committee, maybe even a
> committee of geniuses.  So, even without being a genius, some people
> can outdo some committees.  The actual working of a committee can be
> the limiting factor, even along the lines I talk about before in
> regard to misunderstanding.  The sum of the whole becoming less than
> the sum of the work members could archive individually.  This is sort
> of a broad picture of some things in committees.

Ah I get it. You're a genius. 

> 
> 
>> What does "every possible electronic/
>> mathematical processing technique to future proof the language"
>> mean?
> 
> You have got to be joking.

No, I'm not. "[E]very possible electronic/mathematical processing
technique to future proof the language" is nonsense. You're a genius, and
an excellent communicator. Explain, please.

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Re: On the importance of standards Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-06-11 22:03 -0700
  Re: On the importance of standards Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-11 22:32 -0700
    Re: On the importance of standards Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-06-12 13:06 -0700
      Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 22:34 +1000
      Re: On the importance of standards rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-06-14 19:09 -0400
        Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 19:02 +1000
          Re: On the importance of standards rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 13:55 -0400
    Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 22:08 +1000
  Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 23:28 +1000
    Re: On the importance of standards Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-13 07:41 -0700
      Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 19:06 +1000
    Re: On the importance of standards Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 10:10 -0700
      Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 19:19 +1000
    Re: On the importance of standards Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-13 12:33 -0500
      Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 19:28 +1000
        Re: On the importance of standards Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-23 11:58 -0500
        Re: On the importance of standards "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-06-25 20:00 +0100
    Re: On the importance of standards "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-06-13 07:55 -1000
      Re: On the importance of standards Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-06-13 12:35 -0700
        Re: On the importance of standards Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-06-13 23:18 +0200
        Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 19:41 +1000
      Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 19:37 +1000
    Re: On the importance of standards Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-06-13 12:00 -0700
      Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 21:41 +1000
        Re: On the importance of standards "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-06-25 20:08 +0100
    Re: On the importance of standards rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-06-14 19:16 -0400
      Re: On the importance of standards Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 20:33 +1000

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