3.2. Elementary Principles

When you pursued standardization, was it a deliberate decision?

Adin: We surely started standardization fairly early; in fact I think I wrote a paper about it, and we got to be part of ISO. We always wanted to standardize things and we managed to a large extent to do that. We discouraged people from fiddling around with the basic structures of the language, adding arbitrary kind of things that would complicate the syntax, or violate some of the elementary principles we were trying to maintain.