domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-10-21T17:55:19.832Z)
From ["Rationale for American National Standard for Information Systems – Programming Language – C"](https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0BxVCLS4f8Sg5NWZmM2NjZWEtYmExMS00Y2EzLWE3ZTMtNzFmYjYwYzBiOTIw/edit?hl=en_US), apparently in 1988: > The Committee’s overall goal was to develop a clear, consistent, and > unambiguous Standard for the C programming language which codifies the > common, existing definition of C and which promotes the portability of user > programs across C language environments. > The X3J11 charter clearly mandates the Committee to codify common existing > practice. The Committee has held fast to precedent wherever this was clear > and unambiguous.
>From < https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0BxVCLS4f8Sg5NWZmM2NjZWEtYmExMS00Y2EzLWE3ZTMtNzFmYjYwYzBiOTIw/edit?hl=en_US>, apparently in 1988: The Committee’s overall goal was to develop a clear, consistent, and > unambiguous Standard for the C programming language which codifies the > common, existing definition of C and which promotes the portability of user > programs across C language environments. > The X3J11 charter clearly mandates the Committee to codify common existing > practice. The Committee has held fast to precedent wherever this was clear > and unambiguous. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Domenic Denicola < domenic at domenicdenicola.com> wrote: > From: es-discuss [es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org] on behalf of Brendan > Eich [brendan at mozilla.com] > > > Our duty as a standards body includes specifying de-facto standards > which browsers must implement to interop. __proto__ is one such. > > It's worth highlighting this aspect of the situation. This duty of > standards bodies has, at least from what I can see from my limited vantage > point, only recently become apparent. But it's a crucial part of being a > standards body today. > > Relevant reading, from the dawn of time when this was becoming apparent in > the HTML/web applications space (2004): > http://ln.hixie.ch/?count=1&start=1085764602 > > (I look forward to people with more experience than me coming by to tell > me about how this is not as new-fangled a paradigm as I think it is :) > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss at mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Cheers, --MarkM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20131014/50893d86/attachment.html>