6. Acronyms and abbreviations

This clause is informative.
The following acronyms and abbreviations are used throughout this
International Standard:
BCL . Base Class Library, which provides types to represent the built-in
data types of the CLI, simple file
access, custom attributes, security attributes, string manipulation,
formatting, streams, and collections.
CLI . Common Language Infrastructure
CLS . Common Language Specification
IEC . the International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE . the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISO . the International Organization for Standardization
The name C# is pronounced .C Sharp..
The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed by
the NUMBER SIGN #
(U+000D).
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