Name: Anonymous 2017-06-30 19:17
ISO programming standards used to be about creating standards for programming communities so they can have some idea of what ``BASIC'' or ``Pascal'' means, but now it's about setting the standard[1] for what you are allowed to use.
If ISO worked in the 80s how it worked today, there would have to be a huge community of APL programmers lobbying to make APL the standard! But that's not how it worked back then. ISO was standardizing programming languages to define a portable part that had to be the same across implementations.
In the new interpretation, people are required to use ISO standardized languages for certain kinds of work. C is becoming the standard thanks to this new interpretation of ISO standards.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
If ISO worked in the 80s how it worked today, there would have to be a huge community of APL programmers lobbying to make APL the standard! But that's not how it worked back then. ISO was standardizing programming languages to define a portable part that had to be the same across implementations.
In the new interpretation, people are required to use ISO standardized languages for certain kinds of work. C is becoming the standard thanks to this new interpretation of ISO standards.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
Modula-2 was selected as the basis for Delco's high level language because of its many strengths over other alternative language choices in 1986. After Delco Electronics was spun off from GM (with other component divisions) to form Delphi in 1997, global sourcing required that a non-proprietary high-level software language be used. ECU embedded software now developed at Delphi is compiled with commercial C compilers.