The International Standards Organization. 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
This is a common misunderstanding. In fact, ISO is not an acronym but an invariant designation for the entity which defines and publishes standards. (It comes from the Greek 'isos' meaning "the same", or "equal".) The correct designation in English is "The International Organization for Standardization." Simply visit their web site at
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I would hope that this will be corrected in the document files for subsequent 4.x gawk releases and perhaps corrected in the documents for the 3.1.x release as well (since not everybody will immediately move on to the 4.x release.)
I must say that I am a bit surprised that Mr. Robbins was unaware of this all too often repeated mistake, especially given the fact that he was involved with the portion of the POSIX standard which dealt with AWK and, hence, keyed in to the broader standards community. I am even more surprised that nobody else has pointed this out for at least eleven years.
Always one to strike a blow for accuracy, I leave matters in the very capable hands of the marvelous folks behind the GNU project. Thank you for giving this matter your kind consideration.
Sincerely,
William Bresler