> On Jun 15, 2016, at 2:12 PM, Bob Myers <r...@gol.com> wrote: > > If you are referring to the standard ECMA-2 for a subset of ALGOL 60, this > was not a "standard for a programming language", but rather for a particular > ill-advised crippling of ALGOL, which not only removed `own` (sort of static) > variables, but much more importantly removed the key feature of recursion, > and bizarrely made identifiers unique only up to six characters (!), probably > at the behest of some manufacturer that had 6-byte words, allowing them to > claim that their implementation was "conformant" to this truncated > "standard". Hardly one of their best moments. ...
Yup, all true. but my point was simply that Ecma working with software (and in particular programming languages) is not new or unusual. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
