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Response to the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed ruling on standards and certification

In December 1978, the Federal Trade Commission issued a notice of intention of rulemaking in regard to the matter of Standards and Certification. In cooperation with the American National Standards Institute, of which ACM is a member, the ACM Standards Committee prepared a response to that notice and submitted it to the Commission in April 1979. The response gives a summary of the ACM Standards Committee position on a standards regulation and affords insights into the process by which procedures evolve in this area. For this reason, the response is reproduced here as a report.

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Considerations for future programming language standards activities

This paper reviews the current state of programming language standards activities with respect to the anomalies which exist between the various published and proposed standards for Fortran, Cobol, PL/I, and Basic. Proposals are made for the inclusion of formalisms within future standards and the extension of the standards to include additional items such as error conditions and documentation.

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