Commentary on Mr. Mooers' Paper.

Comments on the research paper "Accommodating Standards and Identification of Programming Languages," by Calvin N. Mooers. Opinion that Mooer's approach to programming language via the route of trademark and service mark protection seems ill-advised; Comment that the purpose of the trademark concept is to protect the commercial value of the name of a product, not the integrity of the product itself; View that the most complex thing industrial standardization bodies have ever attempted is the standardization of programming languages.