From J.L.Schonfelder@liverpool.ac.uk Fri Sep 1 12:51:55 1995 Received: from mailhub.liverpool.ac.uk (pp@mail.liv.ac.uk [138.253.100.84]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA20803 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 12:51:52 +0200 Received: from pop.liv.ac.uk by mail.liv.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:50:54 +0100 Received: from jlspc.liv.ac.uk (jlspc.liv.ac.uk [138.253.102.118]) by pop.liv.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.6-ajt-2) with SMTP id LAA05567 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:45:10 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:50:49 OBS From: Lawrie Schonfelder Subject: Resignation To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Message-ID: Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Dear friends, It is with considerable sadness that I have to announce that I am having to resign from active membership of WG5. Changes here in Liverpool are resulting in me picking up increased responsibilities and workload. This makes it impossible for me to continue active participation in WG5 and Fortran development activities. I thought about reverting to a passive role of "old fart" sniping on the sidelines rather than continuing to be an active designer, but I dont think I could do that. So in spite of the temptation of an annual trip to nice places with interesting company that are WG5 meetings I am stepping down. I will stay on the e-mail lists for the moment and I might volunteer the odd comment(;-) from time to time, but I can no longer afford to attend meetings or spend the time drafting documents. This means that I am giving up the role of project editor for the Varying String standard and I will not be able to complete the work on the datatype TR. I will pass the machine readable master copies of the string standard to Miles as convenor, and I will try to get what I have done so far on the TR into some sort of usable form and pass that on similarly. I hope the work on Fortran prospers and that there is a major resurgence of use of the language on the way. I am apprehensive that F90 was "too little too late" and that F95 and F2000 are continuing the trend. If true this means Fortran is headed for a slow decline into linguistic obscurity. I hope this is not what happens but my natural pessimism makes me fear it. It has been in the main a good 15 years. I have been to a lot of interesting places and met a lot of interesting people. I hope I have managed to contribute something to the work over the years and I will miss seeing you all. Perhaps some time in the future I may be able to rejoin. Cheerio, and thanks for all the fish... as someone said! Lawrie -- Dr.J.L.Schonfelder Director, Computing Services Dept. The University of Liverpool, UK e-mail J.L.Schonfelder@liv.ac.uk phone: +44(151)794-3716 fax: +44(151)794-3759