Setting the Standards for Java and C++

ENT, Dec 17, 1997 by Dana Gonzalez

The ISO has been busy as of late. Two separate announcements from the ISO highlight the moves that Java and C have made toward standardization.

The ISO announced that the majority of its Joint Technical Committee 1 members voted to approve Sun Microsystems Inc.'s application to become a Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) Submitter. The ballot shows that 20 countries voted yes, while two countries -- one of which is the United States -- voted no, and two countries abstained from voting. With this approval, Sun can now begin to submit the Java platform specifications for international standardization. Sun can make submissions for 2 years.

In a related announcement, the C Committee of the ISO approved a global standard for the C software programming language. Representatives of eight countries and about 40 companies involved with software technologies voted unanimously on the completed content for an international standard for the C programming language. Final ratification is expected by March 1998.

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