From mdeane@ANSI.org Tue Aug 28 18:16:26 2001 Received: from email1.ansi.org (mail.ansi.org [165.254.114.6] (may be forged)) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA01165 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:16:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:37:01 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B20110A92F@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3296 - SC 22/WG 13 Business Plan and Convenor's Report Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:36:57 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3296 TITLE: JTC 1/SC 22/WG 13 Business Plan and Convenor's Report DATE ASSIGNED: 2001-08-28 SOURCE: SC 22/WG 13 Convenor (M. Schoenhacker) BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other document (Open) PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: This document will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary under Agenda Item 8.6 pending the approval of its addition to the agenda. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Open Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat Matt Deane ANSI 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4992 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: mdeane@ansi.org _______end of cover page, beginning of report____________ ----- WG13 Convener's Report and Business Plan follows ------------- Business Plan and Convener's Report ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG13 (Modula-2) Document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG13 D264 PERIOD COVERED: July 2000 - July 2001 SUBMITTED BY: Convener of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG13 Dr. Martin Schoenhacker Vienna University of Technology Department of Computer Graphics and Algorithms Karlsplatz 13/1861 A-1040 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43 1 58801 18617 Fax: +43 1 58801 18699 EMail: schoenhacker@ads.tuwien.ac.at 1. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY 1.1 JTC1/SC22/WG13 STATEMENT OF SCOPE Development of ISO/IEC Standards related to the programming language Modula-2. 1.2 PROJECT REPORT 1.2.1 COMPLETED PROJECTS JTC1.22.18.01 -- IS 10514-1 Modula-2, Base Language IS 10514-1 was published June 1st, 1996. So far, no serious problems have been reported. JTC1.22.18.02 -- DIS 10514-3 Objected Oriented Modula-2 IS 10514-3 was published December 19th, 1998. So far, no serious problems have been reported. JTC1.22.18.04 -- DIS 10514-2 Generics in Modula-2 IS 10514-2 was published December 19th, 1998. So far, no serious problems have been reported. 1.2.2 PROJECTS UNDERWAY JTC1.22.15436 -- Interfacing Modula-2 to C This project to produce a Type 3 Technical Report has been assigned to WG13 following a letter ballot in January 1997. It is currently in Working Draft stage. REQUEST TO SC22 PLENARY 2001: Due to the severe lack of participation and therefore of progress in this work item, WG13 requests the cancellation of project JTC1.22.15436. 1.2.3 CANCELLED PROJECTS As requested by WG13 at the 1996 SC22 Plenary, the following projects formerly assigned to WG13 have been terminated: JTC1.22.03 -- Modula-2 to Posix Binding JTC1.22.05 -- Support for Commercial Programming in Modula-2 JTC1.22.06 -- Further support for Concurrent Programming in Modula-2 1.2.4 COOPERATION AND COMPETITION WG13 has always tried to cooperate with as many compiler writers as possible, and contacts to industry still work quite well. Although the general public is unfortunately not well aware of Modula-2, there are various important applications. In particular, the language is being used in the implementation of safety-critical and/or embedded systems, e.g. in car electronics and automated train control. Also, it is being used as the implementation language for a word processing package with an installed base of more than 20.000 copies, as well as for teaching purposes at various universities. Where appropriate, WG13 has established contact with other SC22 working groups. There is no apparent direct competition with any other efforts. 2.0 PERIOD REVIEW No WG13 standards are due for periodic review in 2002. 2.1 MARKET REQUIREMENTS WG13 reacted to strong demands by the Modula-2 user community in preparing extensions to IS 10514-1. In particular, there was popular demand for Object Oriented Extensions, and it is hoped that the publication of IS 10514-3 will lead to a uniform way of handling these extensions in the available compilers. With regard to Generics, there was popular demand mainly from academia which has also been met in IS 10514-2. Finally, the requirement for interfacing to libraries defined in the C language is being handled by project JTC1.22.15436. WG13 is currently not aware of any other demands or concerns regarding Modula-2. 2.2 ACHIEVEMENTS IS 10514-1 (Modula-2, Base Language) was published June 1st, 1996. IS 10514-2 (Generics in Modula-2) was published December 19th, 1998. IS 10514-3 (Object Oriented Extensions) was published December 19th, 1998. The WG13 Web site can be found at http://sc22wg13.twi.tudelft.nl/ 2.3 RESOURCES Although resources in general are declining, the future of the current WG13 projects seems to be secured. There are project editors and backup project editors for all the active projects, as well as for the completed Base Language Standard. 3.0 FOCUS NEXT WORK PERIOD For the upcoming work period, work on the Technical Report on Interfacing Modula-2 to C will have to be progressed as quickly as possible. 3.1 DELIVERABLES After the cancellation of project JTC1.22.15436 -- Interfacing Modula-2 to C, there will be no open projects. 3.2 STRATEGIES 3.2.1 RISKS No problems are anticipated. 3.2.2 OPPORTUNITIES After the cancellation of project JTC1.22.15436 -- Interfacing Modula-2 to C, there will be no open projects. 3.3 WORK PROGRAM PRIORITIES After the cancellation of project JTC1.22.15436 -- Interfacing Modula-2 to C, there will be no open projects. 4. OTHER ITEMS This section lists other items that are not part of the "Business Plan" but are appropriate for the Convener's Report. 4.1 PROJECT EDITORS The following individuals serve as project editors and backup project editors, respectively: JTC1.22.18.01 -- Modula-2, Base Language Cornelis Pronk (main), Martin Schoenhacker (backup) JTC1.22.18.02 -- Object Oriented Modula-2 Albert Wiedemann (main), John Lancaster (backup) JTC1.22.18.04 -- Generics in Modula-2 Richard J. Sutcliffe (main), Cornelis Pronk (backup) JTC1.22.15436 -- Interfacing Modula-2 to C Eberhard Enger (main), Martin Schleusser (backup) 4.2 ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION WG13 has been working over e-mail for a considerable time now, and recent decisions within the working group have mostly been taken using e-mail. This seems the only practical way for the future, in particular as travel budgets appear to be shrinking everywhere. In addition to the e-mail reflector, WG13 has its own ftp and Web sites which have recently been expanded to offer more services (e.g. FAQ and Publications) to the Modula-2 community. 4.3 RECENT MEETINGS The 12th meeting of WG13 took place at the University of Linz, Linz, Austria, March 17th-18th, 1997. 4.4 FUTURE MEETINGS No future meetings are anticipated. 4.5 WORKING GROUP MODE REQUEST TO SC22 PLENARY 2001: Since there will be no open projects after the cancellation of project JTC1.22.15436 -- Interfacing Modula-2 to C, it would seem appropriate to switch WG13's mode of operation to "maintenance". WG13 is therefore requesting this change based on the assumption that the project cancellation request will be granted. ----- end of WG13 Convener's Report and Business Plan -------------- _______________________________________________ Dr. Martin Schoenhacker (Schönhacker) Assistant Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Graphics and Algorithms Vienna University of Technology / Dept. E186-1 Karlsplatz 13/186-1, A-1040 Wien, Austria Tel.: +43 1 58801 18617, Fax: +43 1 58801 18699