Please correct me if I am wrong.
1. Once a language specs is submitted to a standard body, the
owner of the specs retains the ownership as long as it is in
pending process. The specs will not be released during the long
process. The longer process, the better and more protective.
2. REBOL was invented more than two years ago. The language
syntax per se is supposed to be relatively stable in spite of
features being added or changed during experimental stage. It is
ready to submit to a standard body -- just the syntax, not the
"library".
Geo Massar
Veteran programmer
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>
> I disagree.
> The language does not have to be "quite stable".
>
> The C language was not very stable at all when we started to standardize it.
> Same with C++. There were many conflicting implementations in both cases.
> I say this from having served on X3J11, the C standards committee,
> during my days as a compiler writer.
>
> I do agree that the process takes
> (to take a quote from the movie 6days7nites)
> a long, long, long long long ... long! long time.
>
