[Python-ideas] Making Python more enterprise technology

[Mark Summerfield]

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.

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