[[Category:Encyclopedia]]The '''International Organization for Standardization''' ('''ISO''') is an international group of standards organizations from 157 different countries. [[ANSI]] is the member body from the United States. ISO has standardized many things including aspects of film, the ISO CD file system, several programming languages (including [[Ada]], a variant of [[BASIC]], [[C sharp|C#]], [[C++]], [[Eiffel]], [[Pascal]], and [[Prolog]]), several media formats, and a number of formats for describing dates and times.