Information technology: ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 22, Programming languages, their environments, and system software interfaces

摘要

This article provides an insight into the scope, work programme and strategic direction of a standards committee that silently and invisibly serves the needs of IT programmers and complier developers.The relative cost and value of software and hardware has shifted dramatically since the first commercial general-purpose programmable computer UNIVAC, which became available 50 years ago. Software development has become a major capital item and a vital part of the information infrastructure. Software supports practically all dimensions of social, educational and industrial life, e.g. automated teller machines, airline reservation systems, avionics control, payroll systems. These services typically rely extensively on computers that run programs written in the languages standardized by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22.