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Abstract

Interest in Lisp standardization has resulted in the formation of a new technical committee known as "X3J13 Common Lisp." This is a technical subcommittee within the Accredited Standards Committee "X3--Information Processing Systems" which is sponsored by CBEMA (Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association) and operates under the procedures of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). X3 has a number of technical subcommittees which do the detailed technical work of standards development, including: X3J1 (PL/I), X3J2 (BASIC), X3J3 (FORTRAN), X3J4 (COBOL), X3J9 (Pascal), X3J10 (APL), X3J11 (C), and now X3J13 (Common Lisp). Although X3 has a large role in the development of programming language standards, some ANSI standard languages (like MUMPS and Ada) have not gone through the X3 route. The IEEE is also very active in developing computer standards. X3 also serves as the US technical committee that corresponds to ISO/TC97 (the Technical Committee on Information Processing within the International Organization for Standardization).