Re: take the 20 second lang. survey

[Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>]

"David C. Hoos, Sr." wrote:

> Florian Weimer <fw@s.netic.de> wrote in message
> news:871zd58njm.fsf@deneb.cygnus.qad.org...
> > "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes:
> >
> > > >   2) the 1st standardized OO language is missing in your
> > > >      OOL part: Ada (95) ...
> > > >
> > > > CL -- standardized in 1994.
> > > He probably meant to say _internationally_ standardized.  Ada95 was the
> > > first such.
> >
> > Are you sure? IEEE Scheme dates from 1990, and it supports
> > message-passing style programming. ;)
>
> When did IEEE Scheme achieve IEC/ISO standardization?

I'll bet this could qualify on the following grounds: "Standards are such a
wonderful thing that everyone should have one of their own." ;-) Doesn't
something become "standardized" once you have written down a set of rules? How
widely accepted and used the "standard" is may be debatable.

Of course having a validation suite and some form of legal control of the
language name might go a long way to making a standard actually mean something.
For example, I don't know that you can't write a compiler for some language,
label it C++ and have the unsuspecting assume that your compiler adheres to any
sort of language standard at all. I think when Ada got started, the DoD's
ownership of the name and insistence on validation gave some credibility to the
standard.

MDC
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