page_title: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 / History
caption_attribution_description: English: During the first day of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ Standards Committee meeting at the British Standards Institution in Chiswick, London in July 1997, a committee member studies committee papers concerning various language and library proposals and makes notes. The tracks of Gunnersbury station can be seen outside the window.
context_page_description: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission that develops and facilitates standards within the fields of programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 is also sometimes referred to as the "portability subcommittee". The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 is the American National Standards Institute, located in the United States.
context_section_description: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 was created in 1985, with the intention of creating a JTC 1 subcommittee that would address standardization within the field of programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces. Before the creation of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22, programming language standardization was addressed by ISO TC 97/SC 5. Many of the original working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 were inherited from a number of the working groups of ISO TC 97/SC 5 during its reorganization, including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 2 – Pascal (originally ISO TC 97/SC 5/WG 4), ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 4 – COBOL (originally ISO TC 97/SC 5/ WG 8), and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5 – Fortran (originally ISO TC 97/SC 5/WG 9). Since then, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 has created and disbanded many of its working groups in response to the changing standardization needs of programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces.
caption: Studying papers and making notes during a ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 21 C++ Standards Committee meeting at the British Standards Institution in London in 1997
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