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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index ab9ebf86..f0f74fef 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -30941,12 +30941,15 @@ in @command{awk} programs. @cindex ISO @item ISO -The International Standards Organization. +The International Organization for Standardization. This organization produces international standards for many things, including programming languages, such as C and C++. In the computer arena, important standards like those for C, C++, and POSIX become both American national and ISO international standards simultaneously. This @value{DOCUMENT} refers to Standard C as ``ISO C'' throughout. +See @uref{http://www.iso.org/iso/home/about.htm, the ISO website} for more +information about the name of the organization and its language-independent +three-letter acronym. @cindex Java programming language @cindex Programming languages, Java |