On 2010-05-12, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Mark Summerfield writes:
As far as I'm aware no big company specifically promoted or promotes C++
That's because the U.S. government dismembered it and in the process kneecapped a national treasure. :-P
Ah...
If Python were to be [ISO] standardized it would become much more visible and a much safer corporate bet.
Perl managed without it, and AFAIK there is no ISO or ANSI Java, either (the #3 Google hit was "Sun Drops ISO Java Standards Effort For Good" from 1999). Admittedly, EMCAscript is there, but that came afterward, pushed by enterprises that had already adopted Javascript, and wanted to stop the Netscape vs. Microsoft whipsaw.
True, and _what_ a language got specified!
In fact, Python not only has an excellent standard, but it has excellent testing of the standard, what with 4 major implementations aiming for conformance IIUC, plus assorted near-implementations such as Cython and Stackless. I suspect that a well-run marketing campaign by the PSF, starting by trademarking "Standard Python" and getting some funding to set up a conformance testing certification program, would do wonders at not such great expense.
I'm sure you're right, but I guess it would be quite an undertaking. -- Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu C++, Python, Qt, PyQt - training and consultancy "Programming in Python 3 (Second Edition)" - ISBN 0321680561