[clean-list] ANSI standard Clean?

Fergus Henderson fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:18:35 +1100


On 13-Nov-2002, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> Alan Hutchinson wrote:
> 	Has the time come to apply to ANSI for acceptance of Clean
> 	as a world standard?
> 
> Er, ANSI only define *USA* standards, not world standards.
> 
> Something more in keeping with Clean's current open source status
> would be to offer it to ECMA, who have the pleasant habit of making
> standards available free over the net.  If it was good enough for
> Javascript and C#, why not Clean?

ECMA have a requirement for at least two independent implementations.

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