Editing Common Business Communication Language

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The '''Common Business Communication Language''' ('''CBCL''') is a communications language proposed by [[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]] that foreshadowed much of [[XML]]. The language consists of a basic framework of hierarchical markup derived from [[S-expression]]s, coupled with some general principles about use and extensibility. Although written in 1975, the proposal was not published until 1982,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Common Business Communication Language |url=http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/cbcl.html |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=jmc.stanford.edu}}</ref> and to this day remains relatively obscure.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/cbcl2/cbcl2.html 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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