Common Business Communication Language

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The Common Business Communication Language (CBCL) is a communications language proposed by John McCarthy that foreshadowed much of XML. The language consists of a basic framework of hierarchical markup derived from S-expressions, coupled with some general principles about use and extensibility. Although written in 1975, the proposal was not published until 1982,{{Cite web |title=The Common Business Communication Language |url=http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/cbcl.html |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=jmc.stanford.edu}} and to this day remains relatively obscure.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}