On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 12:41:31 UTC, Rusty wrote:
Are there any plans to have the D language standardized by
ISO/IEC?
ISO is not everything.
I know of an engineering software company that started its
business in the '80s based on Pascal (ISO 7185), because that was
the language thought in university. This language has its
limitations, so when Extended Pascal was standardised in the '90s
(ISO 10206) this company decided to change to it, anticipating
abundant support. Yet the world has only seen one single
commercial Extended Pascal compiler (Prospero) and it is no
longer available today. The free compilers GPC en FPC support
only some parts of the language, and not the same parts.
Despite being standardised, Pascal is known for its many
incompatible dialects. One evolved into Delphi, which is still
available today and proprietary.
So, standardising a programming language is not guaranteed to do
any good.
-Bastiaan.
