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The Common Business Communication Language (CBCL) is a communications language proposed by John McCarthy that foreshadowed much of XML. The language consists of a basic framework of hierarchical markup derived from S-expressions, coupled with some general principles about use and extensibility. Although written in 1975, the proposal was not published until 1982,^[1] and to this day remains relatively obscure.^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ "The Common Business Communication Language". jmc.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-12.

External links

John McCarthy's original CBCL proposal, webified and with a 1998 appendix considering some of the then-current work going on with XML and other communications languages.

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[1] "The Common Business Communication Language". jmc.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-12.

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