What python can NOT do?

[Aahz]

In article <4a998465$0$1637$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net>,
John Nagle  <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>
>    Personally, I consider Python to be a good language held back by
>too-close ties to a naive interpreter implementation and the lack
>of a formal standard for the language.

Name one language under active development that has not been harmed by a
formal standard.  (I think C doesn't count -- there was relatively little
development of C after the standards process started.)
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