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> so they could tell people (governments?) that it was a registered standard Well, yes that’s the reason why standards bodies exist :)

• gumby 4y ago
  Normally standards bodies deliberate over the standard. IIRC Guy was saying that they just handed a document to ECMA and and it was stamped “approved”. Hmm, I see the same was done with Dart…
  • lozenge 4y ago
    And C# as well
    • unilynx 4y ago
      And the MS Office XML formats