2 <clause number="6" title="Acronyms and abbreviations" informative="true">
3 <paragraph>This clause is informative. </paragraph>
4 <paragraph>The following acronyms and abbreviations are used throughout this ECMA Standard. </paragraph>
5 <paragraph>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. </paragraph>
6 <paragraph>CLI -Common Language Infrastructure </paragraph>
7 <paragraph>CLS -Common Language Specification </paragraph>
8 <paragraph>IEC -the International Electrotechnical Commission </paragraph>
9 <paragraph>IEEE -the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers </paragraph>
10 <paragraph>ISO -the International Organization for Standardization </paragraph>
11 <paragraph>The name C# is pronounced "C Sharp". </paragraph>
12 <paragraph>The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed by the NUMBER SIGN # (U+000D). </paragraph>
13 <paragraph>End of informative text. </paragraph>