Ecma

ECMA English thumb|Logo Alternative forms en ECMA see usage notes Etymology Originally European Computer Manufacturers Association. Name changed to Ecma International in 1994 to reflect the organization’s global reach and activities. Pronunciation en /ˈɛkmə/ Proper noun Ecma International, a nonprofit standards organization for information and communication systems. en David Worthington Microsoft Defends Integrity of Open Office XML SD Times: The Industry Newspaper for Software Development Managers 168 Huntington, N.Y. BZ Media LLC 15 February 2007 24 https://archive.org/details/sdtimes168/page/n23/mode/1up 3 1528-1965 According to Paoli, Microsoft devoted 15 to 20 engineers per week to remove platform dependencies from OOXML over the year that Ecma’s technical committee reviewed the specification. en Eliza Varney Ecma International Christian Tietje; Alan Brouder Handbook of Transnational Economic Governance Regimes Leiden Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2009 part C (Communications, Electronics, and Media), section VI (The Role of Ecma in Transnational Economic Governance) 556 https://books.google.com/books?id=9_J5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA556 978-90-04-16330-0 Ecma’s standards include, inter alia, safety specifications, specifications for environmental product attributes, specifications for data communications such as IT security, specifications for system interconnection, as well as specifications for multimedia such as universal 3D (Ecma 2007d). en Axel Rauschmayer Standardization: ECMAScript Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers Sebastopol, Calif. O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2014 45 https://archive.org/details/speakingjavascri0000raus/page/45/mode/1up 978-1-449-36503-5 ECMA-262 is managed and evolved by Ecma’s Technical Committee 39 (1) (TC39). Usage notes The form ECMA, used for the organization until 1994, is still in use for its standards, followed by a number; e.g., the first edition of the Dart programming language specification was approved as “ECMA-408” in July 2014. Derived terms en ECMAScript, en ES en pseudo-acronyms en Organizations