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GENEVA, July 27 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

In June 2005 the Ecma General Assembly approved the third edition of the
standards for C# and CLI. With the first edition of the standards in 2002 and
their adoption by ISO/IEC in 2003, the industry was given powerful tools to
enable vendor-neutral development of Web services. Today, Ecma is keeping pace
with the growing needs of the developer community by publishing the third
edition.

New core features — The object-oriented programming language C# allows
developers to easily build XML-based Web services with any language and on any
platform. With the third edition, the standard has been substantially
improved. It contains several new core features such as generics, nullable
types and anonymous methods, which can simplify event handling.

More productive — At the same time, Ecma has improved the standard for
CLI, in which applications written in multiple high-level languages can be
executed in different system environments. The standard now includes
first-class support for generics at both run-time and class level. Besides, a
parallel Application Programming Interface (API) allows developers to more
easily develop code to simultaneously run on multiple threads.

"Intel is committed to fostering open standards. Ecma’s ratification of
the CLI specification is proof that cooperation between companies,
universities and individuals can produce a quality product," said Wen-Hann
Wang, general manager of Intel’s Managed Run-Time Division. "An open CLI
standard helps encourage research and enablement to ensure the success of
managed applications on standard computing platforms."

David Patrick, Novell’s general manager of Linux, open source and platform
services commented: "We are very pleased with the upgrades to the Ecma C#
language specification as they show the evolution of a language which is
adapting to the needs of modern applications."

"Ecma’s endorsement of the latest version of C# and CLI reaffirms
Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to open standards," said Anders Hejlsberg,
distinguished engineer at Microsoft Corporation. "Microsoft is excited about
making the advances in C# broadly available through Ecma standardization."

Dr. Nigel Perry, computer scientist, New Zealand, and convener of the Ecma
C# technical committee commented: "C# is a standardized modern object-oriented
language which is available across multiple platforms; complete releases for
Windows, Linux and MacOS X are all expected by the end of this year, making it
very attractive for both commercial projects and teaching."

"Ecma members have produced a quality, cohesive specification from a
multitude of draft technologies, allowing for a more robust managed code
experience," said Joel Marcey, Ecma CLI technical group convener and Intel
software engineer.

About Ecma International
Since its inception in 1961, Ecma International (Ecma) has developed
standards for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consumer
Electronics (CE). Ecma is a non-profit industry association of technology
developers, vendors and users. Industry and other experts work together at
Ecma to complete standards. Ecma submits its work for approval as ISO, ISO/IEC
and ETSI standards and is the inventor and main practitioner of "fast
tracking" of specifications through the standardisation process in global
standards bodies such as the ISO. Publications can be downloaded free of
charge from http://www.ecma-international.org/.

Contact
Jan W. van den Beld
Ecma International
CH-1204 Geneva
Tel. +41-22-849-60-00
Fax +41-22-849-60-01
http://www.ecma-international.org/

SOURCE: Ecma International

CONTACT: Jan W. van den Beld of Ecma International,
Tel. +41-22-849-60-00,
Fax +41-22-849-60-01

Web site: http://www.ecma-international.org