Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

[Terry Reedy]

"Paddy" <paddy3118 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
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| On Feb 1, 12:18 am, "Terry Reedy" <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
| > ANSI does not actually make standards.  It make metastandards about how 
to
| > make standards (both style and process) and accredites US 
standard-making
| > bodies that will follow those metastandards.  The processes require
| > committee meetings and public comment periods -- a few years and some 
$$$.
| > There in no guarantee that what would come out of such a process would 
be
| > what went in, so 'Standard Python' might easily be a language with no
| > implementations.
| >
| > ANSI standards are owned by ANSI or perhaps the accrediting body.  In 
any
| > case, electronic copies sell for $30.  They cannot legally be accessed 
free
| > as for the docs at python.org.
|
| HI Terry,
| Is their a standardizing body out their to `legitimise` open source
| languages like Python?

Not that I know of.  There are at least a couple hundred ANSI-accredited 
bodies.  The application fee to become one is $3000.  But some group could 
act independently, perhaps with streamlined procedures, including meeting 
by email or chat to cut out the large expenses of meetings, for instance.

tjr