Re: Do you have Standards Committee in your language?

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

This does not appear on my newsreader to be posted to any other groups
besides Comp.Lang.Ada. Were you figuring on independently checking all of
the language groups for followups? Or is it a problem with my newsreader?

Since Ada is one of the few OO languages out there with an ISO standard and
test suite and a history of standard-adherence among compiler vendors, it
would be interesting to see how other languages stack up against it. Other
languages have standards, to be sure, but divergence from the standards
seems to be more the rule than the exception. In this respect, Ada has done
famously well - if one considers standard-adherence to be a good thing.

MDC
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"Just_Curious" <Just_Curious@my-deja.net> wrote in message
news:3B0AF1F6.BDE29DF3@my-deja.net...
> All,
>
> Thinking about role of Standards Committee in my favorite
> language (Fortran) I decided to hear advice from folks in other
> languages first.
>
> What is the role of Your Language committee?
>
> Does Your Committees expand horizons and enlightens compiler
> developers with their recommendations? Or opposite,
> not being creative, they are working like brake for language
> development and experimenting and eventually are bad for
> users?
>
> Do you think that compiler vendors and users themselves are not
> able to maintain backward compatibility without such committees?
>
> And in general, do you see some analogies between Language Committees
> and other regulations in other areas of real life, on the net etc ?
>
> I think these questions are of common interest.
> This is post in several language compiler newsgroups,
> hence please mention your language unless you specially
> don't want this. You may find responds on other languages
> searching Deja with subject as above.
>
> cheers
>
>
>