Re: What computer languages are standardised?

MSCHAEF.COM wrote: 
In article <dlg4gh$g64$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Scott Moore  <samiamsansspam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

casioculture@xxxxxxxxx wrote On 11/15/05 20:00,:

Either ANSI or ISO, what computer languages are standardised? 

Fortran, Basic, Cobol, Pascal, C, Ada, C++.

Which I believe also is the order in which standards appeared for these
languages.


Common Lisp fits somewhere in there, either immediately before or after Ada. 

For those of you who want to see a hyperlinked version of the ANSI
Common Lisp standard, look at:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/index.html

Those who went through the ANSI CL standardization process tell
me that (1) standardization is a very heavyweight and cumbersome
process, and (2) you do NOT want to do language design in a
standards committee.  The ANSI CL standard has some blemishes, but
it turned out fairly well, IMO.

The single-implementation languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, for example)
have an advantage of being much more agile.  However, it's never
entirely clear what's the intended behavior of the implementation
vs. something it accidentally does.

IMO, a standard becomes especially useful when it's embodied in a set
of conformance tests.  Such tests keep the implementors on the same
page, and also help debug the standard ('did you *really* mean to
require that behavior?')

	Paul
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