You mean canonical implementation is good, as in "crap, in order to be fully Python-compliant, we must correctly emulate all CPython's quirks" (see PyPy)
... or is it more along the lines of having a canonical (per definition) *specification*? "Let's have a look at what the ANSI Common Lisp specification [X3J13] says about the behaviour of feature Y when we implement it."
Properly standardized?
You mean canonical implementation is good, as in "crap, in order to be fully Python-compliant, we must correctly emulate all CPython's quirks" (see PyPy)
... or is it more along the lines of having a canonical (per definition) *specification*? "Let's have a look at what the ANSI Common Lisp specification [X3J13] says about the behaviour of feature Y when we implement it."