Hi, Though out of the streamline, I find your post to be one of the most reasonable and well-formed arguments I have read in a long time. Keep it up. Great work.
Steven D'Aprano wrote: Real standards, like TCP/IP which is the backbone of the Internet, aren't controlled by any one company. Anyone can create a TCP stack. Nobody but Microsoft can create a competing version of Windows. TCP/IP became a standard long before Microsoft even acknowledged it's existence. So did ASCII, the IBM BIOS, and serial ports, to name just a few. Does the term "ISO standard" mean anything to you? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list