I love Ruby and I prefer to avoid the committee idea.  

-----Original Message-----
From:	Yukihiro Matsumoto [SMTP:matz / ruby-lang.org]
Sent:	Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:15 PM
To:	ruby-talk ML
Subject:	[ruby-talk:17525] Re: Ruby on Slashdot

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:17519] Re: Ruby on Slashdot"
    on 01/07/09, "James (ruby-talk)" <ruby / jamesbritt.com> writes:

|What are the thoughts on Ruby (eventually) being submitted to a standards body.
|such as ECMA?

Two points:

  * serious discussion for making standard, makes the language more
    robust and stable.

  * at the same time, discussion may stray during the committee
    effort, and result might be something different from current
    Ruby (remember ANSI C++). 

and additional one:

  * at the same time, committee effort is no fun (for me, at least).

So if someone is really willing, how about submitting somthing very
similar to Ruby but has different name, (kinda like JavaScript and
ECMAscript)?  The future Ruby can learn a lot from the committee
effort from this standardized language.

This satisfies everyone, including people who needs standardized
language, people who like discussion in the committee, and me who
hates the committee discussion. ;-)

							matz.
p.s.
Putting a joke aside, remember, this whole thing is just a side-effect
of MY pleasure.  I really hope Ruby enhance your pleasure too.