On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:51 AM Paul Bryan <pbr...@anode.ca> wrote: > From my point of view, the process of standardizing through a formal > standards body is a tedious, verbose, laborious, bureaucratic and > often contentious process. > I've never participated in such a standardization, but I'm sure it's hard work.
I'd really like to know quantitatively what the benefits would be of > running that gauntlet, as I'm not sure they would outweigh the costs. > I think it'd be easier to quantify love. On Fri, 2021-02-12 at 10:33 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > > What would it take to create an ANSI, ECMA and/or ISO standard for Python? > > It seems to have really helped C. > > It looks like Java isn't standardized, and it's done OK, though perhaps it > was healthier in the past - before Oracle decided API's were ownable. > > I think standardizing Python might be really good for controlling its > growth and avoiding featuritis. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/JZYW4JOTANYIOLYDQ6YHRUP2TWO52OAE/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > >
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