US Standards
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ANSI the American National Standards Institute
X3 the ANSI committee for Information Processing
Systems
X3J11 the X3 technical committee standardizing C
X3J16 the X3 technical committee standardizing C++
International Standards
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ISO The International Organization for Standardization, an
organization of national standards bodies such as
ANSI (USA), AFNOR (France), BSI (UK), DIN
(Germany), JTSC (Japan), SCC (Canada) and many
others
IEC the International Electrotechnical Commission
JTC1 the Joint Technical Committee (of ISO and IEC) on
Information Technology
SC22 the JTC1 Sub-Committee for programming languages
WG14 the SC22 Working Group standardizing C
WG21 the SC22 Working Group standardizing C++