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[mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu]

>You have things in the wrong order:  ANSI standards committees are in the
>business of standardizing ideas that have already been tried out and found
>to be workable. 
Bullshit!

Proof by counterexample: X3J3


>The alternative, having a standards committee
>get the bit between its teeth and design something out of thin air, tends
>to yield most unpleasant results.
Quite true.

Again, proof by X3J3. And what about X3J11's trigraphs?