"Paddy" <pa*******@goog lemail.comwrote in message
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| On Feb 1, 12:18 am, "Terry Reedy" <tjre...@udel.e duwrote:
| ANSI does not actually make standards. It make metastandards about how
to
| make standards (both style and process) and accredites US
standard-making
| bodies that will follow those metastandards. The processes require
| committee meetings and public comment periods -- a few years and some
$$$.
| There in no guarantee that what would come out of such a process would
be
| what went in, so 'Standard Python' might easily be a language with no
| implementations .
| >
| ANSI standards are owned by ANSI or perhaps the accrediting body. In
any
| case, electronic copies sell for $30. They cannot legally be accessed
free
| as for the docs at python.org.
|
| HI Terry,
| Is their a standardizing body out their to `legitimise` open source
| languages like Python?
Not that I know of. There are at least a couple hundred ANSI-accredited
bodies. The application fee to become one is $3000. But some group could
act independently, perhaps with streamlined procedures, including meeting
by email or chat to cut out the large expenses of meetings, for instance.
tjr
