From listadm Mon Jul 29 15:41:25 2002 Received: from email1.ansi.org (email1.ansi.org [12.15.192.17]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA26715 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:41:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:43:09 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2027FD62A@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3448 - SC 22/WG 13 Business Plan/Convener's Report Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:43:07 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3448 TITLE: SC 22/WG 13 Business Plan/Convener's Report DATE ASSIGNED: 2002-07-29 SOURCE: SC 22/WG 13 Convenor (M. Schoenhacker) BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other document (Open) PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document was received by the July 26 deadline, so it will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary under Agenda Item 8.6. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Open 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 document__________ Business Plan and Convenor's Report ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG13 (Modula-2) Document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG13 D265 PERIOD COVERED: July 2001 - July 2002 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 None. 1.2.3 CANCELLED PROJECTS The following terminated projects were formerly assigned to WG13: 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 JTC1.22.15436 -- Interfacing Modula-2 to C 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. For 2003, we recommend that IS 10514-2 and IS 10514-3 should be kept "as is", since no problem reports have been received. 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. 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/ 3. OTHER ITEMS This section lists other items that are not part of the "Business Plan" but are appropriate for the Convener's Report. 3.1 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) 3.2 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. 3.3 RECENT MEETINGS The 12th meeting of WG13 took place at the University of Linz, Linz, Austria, March 17th-18th, 1997. 3.4 FUTURE MEETINGS No future meetings are anticipated. 3.5 DISBANDMENT OF WORKING GROUP REQUEST TO SC22 PLENARY 2002: There are no open projects in WG13, and the working group does not anticipate any future business, with the possible exception of small maintenance changes to the published standards. We therefore request that WG13 should be officially disbanded. The current project editor teams will still be available, and the convenor will still be available as a single point of contact.