ECMA-334: 6. Acronyms and abbreviations

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6. Acronyms and abbreviations

This clause is informative.

The following acronyms and abbreviations are used throughout this International Standard:

BCL — Base Class Library, which provides types to represent the built-in data types of the CLI, simple file access, custom attributes, security attributes, string manipulation, formatting, streams, and collections.

CLI — Common Language Infrastructure

CLS — Common Language Specification

IEC — the International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE — the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ISO — the International Organization for Standardization

The name C# is pronounced "C Sharp".

The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed by the NUMBER SIGN #(U+0023).

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