Talk:Robert Bruce Findler

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[edit] Against speedy deletion

I believe that Prof Findler's work on REDEX makes him a notable academic by Wikipedia standards, so I request that this article not be deleted until it has had time for expansion.

I've been following the development of the next version of the Scheme (programming language) standard (see http://www.r6rs.org), and was very impressed to see that the draft uses REDEX. Given Scheme's historic leading role in the design of Programming Languages, this tells me that REDEX is an important development. (Yes, I am a computer geek. Why do you ask?)

I would expect it to take some time (months?) to bring this article up from stub status, and so I ask that those of us interested in this area be given that time. Thanks, CWC 17:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


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I have edited the page to reflext Findler's status on the R6RS committee. He is not an editor but he is the sub-editor in charge of the formal semantics. There is only one such position in the community. If the Report passes ratification (expected by September 30, 2007) this will be the first major programming language report accompanied by a completely executable formal semantics. We expect this action to set a standard for others.

Matthias.f 14:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC) Matthias.f