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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 11.04.2024, 02:48

"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model." -- Andy Tanenbaum

* https://xkcd.com/927/

Not to be overly cynical, but "standards" are usually ignored or only half-implemented. Too expensive, too inefficient, too complex, too weak, too awkward, too old ("irrelevant!"), too new / untested, obscure / not widespread, unneeded, waste of developer time, or just "not invented here" or "we don't care".

* DPMI Standard
* Single UNIX Specification

(Also see the history of ALGOL 68, the successor to ALGOL 60. Disagreements led to ALGOL W and, more notably, Pascal.)

Maybe you consider that obvious, but it's annoying how difficult it is to stick to standards when few people actually care.

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