Subject: Hello?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 16:02:50 -0500

Due to a variety of problems, I'm not sure anyone (else) got the
"Welcome to the HPFF Editorial Subgroup" message.  If you did, please
excuse the following reposts; if not, I hope it works this time.

	Chuck

> Date:    Fri, 12 Jun 92 16:07:16 CDT
> To:      [email-masked]
> From:    [email-masked]
> Subject: Welcome to the HPFF Editorial Subgroup
> Word-Of-The-Day: comity : (n) friendly social atmosphere; social harmony
> 
> 
> Welcome to the HPFF Editorial Subgroup
> 
> The purpose of this group is to develop a standard format for drafts
> of the HPFF language.  Let the games begin!
> 
> To start off discussion, the next two messages are attempts that I
> made to define an outline for the eventual HPFF draft.  One follows
> the F90 standard fairly slavishly, the other is more of an independent
> document.  In the end, I wasn't satisfied with either of them, or I
> would have circulated them at the last meeting.
> 
> Proposal: 
> HPFF should produce the following in its draft(s):
> 	HPF language spec, giving just the extensions to F90
> 	BNF + constraints for the entire language (i.e. both F90 and HPF)
> 	BNF + constraints for the subset language
> 	Rationale for HPF features, including
> 	    Examples of features (more extensive than in the language
> 	    spec, and probably with more amusing variable names)
> 	    Sample implementations for distributed-memory and SIMD machines
> 	If someone has automatic indexing software, an index would be
> 	    nice, too...
> Presumably these could all be packaged as a single document.
> 
> 						Chuck