ACCU World of Code

Category: language standard

  • 2026 in the programming language standards’ world

    This week I was on a virtual meeting of IST/5, the BSI committee responsible for programming language standards in the UK. It’s been three years since I last reported on the programming language standards’ world, what has been going on? tl;dr: Business as usual, with a handful of active committees. I have been meeting secretary…

  • Creating a global Standard requires being politically neutral

    Governments actively promote Standards because following them saves their citizens time and money. The UK and US have contrasting rationales, with the UK focusing on savings achieved through repeated use of standardized items and the US focusing on the repeated use of skills people acquired through using a standardized item (i.e., reduced training costs). Manufacturers…