Arjun Shastry wrote:Thanks Chas.
Like c++ and other languages, does clojure has any one standard body responsible for its specification,libraries?
The organization around Clojure roughly follows that around Python, Ruby, and other languages that are not the result of a single company's efforts. The reference implementation is guided by Rich Hickey (its creator), with the bulk of the work done by him and
Clojure/core, which he heads. Contributions (patches, documentation, etc.) also come from the community via a patch process.
The libraries are almost entirely community-driven; thus, each one is managed by its author, usually with the help of 1-1,000 other contributors from the community.
At this point in time, I think it's taken as a given that standards bodies are generally not an ideal way to develop new languages. Perhaps after some extended period of real-world use, a language might be submitted to a standards body (here I'm thinking of C#), but I wouldn't bet on that being commonplace, either.