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it sounds like ISO standardisation was a mistake?
by anentropic 8y ago
it sounds like ISO standardisation was a mistake?
- pjmlp 8y agoWhen I was at the university, the ISO was freshly baked, what mattered was SWI and SICStus compatibility. Pascal's issues regarding industrial use and poliferation of dialects were mostly fixed with ISO Extended Pascal, other than GNU, everyone else ignored it and focused on Turbo Pascal/Object Pascal compatibility instead. Ruby and Eiffel happen to have ISO standards, but I bet even developers on those communities don't know it. For a long time whatever ISO SQL was had not so much to do with what RDMS were actually providing. ISO only matters if it is something vendors actually care about.