> Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > > > Also, the .NET CLR is standardized at ECMA so we could (at least in > > > theory!) go to the meetings and try to influence version 2. > > > > Notice the addition "in theory". In practice, this is BS. > > It depends on the rules and politics of each particular standards group. > It is fundamentally a social activity. It also depends how much effort > you are willing to put into promoting your cause. Sam Ruby is chair of > the ECMA CLI group. He is a big scripting language fan. > > http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/tc39/ > > Also note the presence of Mike Cowlishaw of REXX fame and Dave Raggett > of the W3C. > > Working within a standards body is a gamble. It can pay off big or it > can completely fail. We might find Microsoft our strongest ally -- they > have always been interested in having the scripting languages work well > on their platforms. They would hate to give programmers to have an > excuse to stick to Unix or the JVM. So it boils down to us vs. MS. Guess who wins whenever there's a disagreement. I still maintain that it's a waste of our time. > I don't personally know enough about this particular circumstance to > know whether there is any possibility of significantly influencing > version 2 or not. Maybe the gamble isn't worth the effort. But I > wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. Well, your boss has a pact with MS, so AS might pull it off. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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