standardization ISO

[JMRyan]

bioinfornatics <bioinfornatics at fedoraproject.org> wrote in
news:ic718b$1kef$1 at digitalmars.com: 

> hi, why D language doesn't have  a standardization (like iso)?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardiza
> tion 
> 

Standards organizations very often don't get involved until there are 
incompatibilities between competing implementations. There are several 
implementations of D, but they are all based on the Digital Mars front end.  
There just aren't the incompatibilities out there that require a standards 
organization's involvement.

Incompatibilities aren't the only problems that standards organizations try 
to solve.  But they nonetheless exist to solve problems.  There are indeed 
problems with D (it still counts as a young language with kinks still to be 
worked out and with weak third party support), but those issues are not the 
kinds that fall under the purview of standards organizations.

Note that open source development of a language helps prevent the need for 
standards organization involvement.  This is at least partly why Perl, PHP, 
and Python don't have standards organization definition.  Since D's front 
end is open source, it may never need a standards organization definition.