Professor John McCarthy
Father of AI

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The Common Business Communication Language

This paper, published in 1982, proposes a language for inter-business inter-computer communication. Most of the ideas in this paper have been re-invented in connection with electronic commerce, specifically in connection with XML.

The Common Business Communication Language, published in 1982, proposes a language for inter-business inter-computer communication. The proposal was considerably more advanced than X12 that came along some years later.

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