Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
There are two views of language standardization.
One that it is a good thing and one that it is bad.
Perl will never be standardized as ISO/ANSI Perl.
Is it better to have a nonstandardized version where
a group defines the language or a committee as in Cobol?

"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?

Yes, if D gets popular enough.

In article <b2u0c1$mlr$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
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>"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
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>Yes, if D gets popular enough.
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But wouldn't that be giving up some language control?

"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2ufn4$15ue$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <b2u0c1$mlr$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> >"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >> Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
> >Yes, if D gets popular enough.
> But wouldn't that be giving up some language control?

There does come a time for that.

I guess someday the language would get out of control by itself, provided it's popular enough. Then ANSIfication would be the way to go.

Walter wrote:
> "Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
> news:b2ufn4$15ue$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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>>In article <b2u0c1$mlr$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
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>>>"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
>>>news:b2tsrj$jd0$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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>>>>Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
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>>>Yes, if D gets popular enough.
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>>But wouldn't that be giving up some language control?
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> There does come a time for that.

Look at what a big job Perl 6 is turning into.  They figured it would take a few
weeks or months.  It is almost out of control.
It will be 2 to 3 years before Perl 6 is released.  Larry
Wall has a lot of design decisions to make about regular expressions
and syntax and a new Perl "given" switch statement.  Perl 5 was already a big
language with a lot of different features and several ways of doing things.
These include built in regular expression, hashes, arrays and objects.

The language design for Perl 6 was separated from the Parrot Virtual Machine to simplify development.  Larry Wall can devote his time to flushing out the details of Perl 6 instead of having to partition his time between development and programming.  The Perl 5 parser is extremely complicated and difficult to extend so a new virtual machine Parrot is being written to replace it.  Perl has always tried to be a maximal feature language.


In article <b33p5b$5iu$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Ilya Minkov says...
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>I guess someday the language would get out of control by itself, provided it's popular enough. Then ANSIfication would be the way to go.
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>Walter wrote:
>> "Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2ufn4$15ue$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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>>>In article <b2u0c1$mlr$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
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>>>>"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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>>>>>Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
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>>>>Yes, if D gets popular enough.
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>>>But wouldn't that be giving up some language control?
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>> There does come a time for that.
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