>When the list was originally set up, standardisation was the intention.
>However, since then the number of xTalk vendors has dropped. OMO is
>dead, HC is showing few signs of life, the SuperCard authors have
>expressed little interest in this list, Hypersense appears to be ticking
>over, which leaves MetaCard. So it became rather pointless to write
>languge specifications. But that position *may* have changed given the
>Opencard initiative. Though I'm not sure if a specification only in use
>by two vendors (or three if we're lucky) is necessarily worth the effort
>of writing it.
I think we'll probably wind up with something fairly informal. OpenCard's
goal isen't to be some backwater wow-that's-nice project.
We're writing an OpenSource engine, and when hundreds of people start
wanting to add to Interpreter, we're going to need standardization.
But I don't think we're about to -- or will ever -- go to the ISO.
