Do you have Standards Committee in your language?

[Ian]

Satisfy your lackadaisacal curiosity by posting SEPARATE queries to each
ng - why assume that anybody is interested in the activities of some
other language group, when there are hundreds of languages out there?
Don't be so bloody lazy!

Ian

Just_Curious wrote:

> All,
>
> Thinking about role of Standards Committee in my favorite
> language (Fortran) I decided to hear advice from folks in other
> languages first.
>
> What is the role of Your Language committee?
>
> Does Your Committees expand horizons and enlightens compiler
> developers with their recommendations? Or opposite,
> not being creative, they are working like brake for language
> development and experimenting and eventually are bad for
> users?
>
> Do you think that compiler vendors and users themselves are not
> able to maintain backward compatibility without such committees?
>
> And in general, do you see some analogies between Language Committees
> and other regulations in other areas of real life, on the net etc ?
>
> I think these questions are of common interest.
> This is post in several language compiler newsgroups,
> hence please mention your language unless you specially
> don't want this. You may find responds on other languages
> searching Deja with subject as above.
>
> cheers