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Ruby becoming an ISO Standard

The Ruby language is going through the process of becoming an ISO Standard (it has been assigned the document number ISO/IEC 30170). There are two ways of creating an ISO Standard, a document that has...

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Does the UK need the PL/1 Standard?

Like everything else language standards are born and eventually die. IST/5, the UK programming language committee, is considering whether the British Standard for PL/1 should be withdrawn (there are...

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2013 in the programming language standards’ world

Yesterday I was at the British Standards Institute for a meeting of IST/5, the committee responsible for programming languages. Things have been rather quiet since I last wrote about IST/5, 18 months...

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An ISO Standard for R (just kidding)

IST/5, the British Standards’ committee responsible for programming languages in the UK, has a new(ish) committee secretary and like all people in a new role wants to see a vision of the future; IST/5...

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Cobol 2014, perhaps the definitive final version of the language…

Look what arrived in the post this morning, a complementary copy of the new Cobol Standard (the CD on top of a paper copy of the 1985 standard). In the good old days, before the Internet, members of...

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2019 in the programming language standards’ world

Last Tuesday I was at the British Standards Institute for a meeting of IST/5, the committee responsible for programming language standards in the UK. There has been progress on a few issues discussed...

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2021 in the programming language standards’ world

Last Tuesday I was on a Webex call (the British Standards Institute’s use of Webex for conference calls predates COVID 19) for a meeting of IST/5, the committee responsible for programming language...

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2023 in the programming language standards’ world

Two weeks ago I was on a virtual meeting of IST/5, the committee responsible for programming language standards in the UK. IST/5 has a new chairman, Guy Davidson, whose efficiency is very unstandard’s...

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