brahms@mindspring.com (Stan Brown) writes:

>I was rather surprised to see a statement posted there to the effect that
>Schildt was a member of the "ANSO/ISO Standardization Committee" (posted
>by someone who said he saw this statement on the cover of SChildt's /C++
>The Complete Reference/).

>Is that true: was Schildt on the ISO committee? If so, did he participate
>to any significant degree?

Schildt is listed as an Observer member in 1996, 1997, and 1998.
I don't have convenient access to membership lists prior to 1996.
(I'd have to dig the paper out of boxes, and I'm not that
interested.)

Oberserver members (as explained in the newsgroup FAQ) have access
to all committee documents and mailing lists, and can attend
meetings if they wish. They do not get to vote.

I don't remember him attending any meetings, although he might have
done so. I don't believe he made any significant contribution to
the standard. The Committee has had typically around 60 active
members and 200 or so observers who just like to get the
mailings to keep reasonably current.

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There's currently -- well, not a flame war, but maybe a glowing-match war
in comp.os.msdos.programmer over our old buddy, Herbert Schildt.

I was rather surprised to see a statement posted there to the effect that
Schildt was a member of the "ANSO/ISO Standardization Committee" (posted
by someone who said he saw this statement on the cover of SChildt's /C++
The Complete Reference/).

Is that true: was Schildt on the ISO committee? If so, did he participate
to any significant degree?

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
http://www.mindspring.com/~brahms/

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