[ANSI-Smalltalk] Response to the first draft of our project application

Paolo Bonzini paolo.bonzini at lu.unisi.ch
Mon Jan 7 12:53:30 GMT 2008


Ralph Johnson wrote:
> So, how about if we make a standard and promote it under our own name?
>  After all, who is OMG to create standards, but they did anyway.  The
> only real advantage to having an organization like INCITS involved is
> for advertising.  They don't necessarily make the standard better, and
> don't really promote it.
> 
> If we later decide that we want to have a big name behind the
> standard, we can join up with a group and follow their rules.

Right, that's what people do with Python Enhancement Proposals, Ruby 
Community Requests, and for Java itself too.

We could have Smalltalk Proposals for Standardization, or...

Paolo



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