Says boo_radley:

I also like that the Common Lisp steering commitee seems to be the clearly titled "X3J13".

That wasn't the Common Lisp folks' doing; that's how ANSI names their committees. The X3 groups are all involved with various aspects of information technology, and the X3J groups are all standardization committees for various programming languages. The committee that produced the 1989 C standard was X3J11.

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Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia