I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.
Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.