In article <4a998465$0$1637$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > > Personally, I consider Python to be a good language held back by >too-close ties to a naive interpreter implementation and the lack >of a formal standard for the language.
Name one language under active development that has not been harmed by a formal standard. (I think C doesn't count -- there was relatively little development of C after the standards process started.) -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I support family values -- Addams family values" --www.nancybuttons.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list