On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 12:50:15 UTC, Rusty wrote:
OK but why is it unlikely? :)
Because you have to convince the national bodies that D qualifies
as an international standard and that businesses around the globe
will benefit from standardization?
Here are two death traps:
1. D does not have a formal specification.
2. ISO standardization is a global expert driven and consensus
based process.
Even if D passed point 1), I somehow doubt that it ever would be
able to move past point 2).
Keep in mind that the national bodies can provide their own
expert representative. So, the design of D would have to pass a
panel of experts.
C/C++ were defacto industry standards which made it much easier
to get a free pass on poor design decisions.
