ISO/IEC standard?

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun May 15 08:00:24 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 14:27:21 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Just because C, C++ and Fortran have ISO (or any other) 
> standards doesn't mean any other language should. Python isn't 
> standardized, yet it has traction in the market. Ditto Groovy. 
> Will Go, Rust, etc. get ISO standards? Who know, but highly 
> unlikely I suspect.

Dart is on an ECMA track which makes it possible later on to get 
on a fast track for ISO AFAIK, but it is probably mostly for 
political reasons (e.g. at some point they probably hoped it 
would replace ECMAScript).

Standardization makes a difference for being selected in big 
government projects, but... eh. Who cares?



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