>"A US federal agency is considering the use of computing languages to specify legal requirements."
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>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/19/2114251/SEC-Proposes-Wall-Street-Transparency-Via-Python

Python in all its current main 4 implementations is still Open Source, so the language asked for makes sense IMHO.
And having a language performing such calculations is even better than providing a normed data structure to read in.
Still, has also at least some taste of over-regulation.

But, call me paranoid, the fears at the very end of the page are not too far fetched IMHO.
MS has done a good job with Ironpython at least - closing the gap to the current CPython,
implementing the full roster instead of subsets (remember the part of the SUN/MS-j++ fight and Quickpascal)
while still enhancing the language to run in MS.
[Rolling eyes] Why couldn't they have given the same resources to Calvin and a few other devs... ?

regards

thomas