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Are there a lot of things that have been standardized without a committee being involved? I'm not aware of many. Designed, yes. Standardized, no.
by jamesaguilar 14y ago
Are there a lot of things that have been standardized without a committee being involved? I'm not aware of many. Designed, yes. Standardized, no.
- qznc 14y agoStandardization by definition requires a buy-in of major players. Nevertheless, TeX might qualify as standard without commmittee.
- ygra 14y agoA very messy one, though. With not that many alternative implementations (iirc they all are based on the converted-to-C Pascal code).
- qznc 14y agoAll major implementations (miktex, pdftex, xetex, luatex) are derivatives of Knuth's Pascal code. There are others, but they did not get very far: http://kasper.phi-sci.com/tex++/ http://kasper.phi-sci.com/tex++/ http://www.cucug.org/amiga/amiinfo/reviews/AmigaTeX.txt http://www.cucug.org/amiga/amiinfo/reviews/AmigaTeX.txt
- lucian1900 14y agoJSON, sort of. Crockford humorously says he is a standards body because of that.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoCrockford also developed a standard for JSON [1] and actively participates in maintaining it. [2] [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627 [2] https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/commits/master https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/commits/master