Computer language design schema
Domain | Ontology | Schema | Grammar | ||||
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What will the language be used for? | Topic, theme, problems, concerns
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What are the entities of this domain? | (concept, properties, relationships. Like a mind map.)
State, things, events, concepts, properties, composition |
What are sentences, conceptually? | Lists? sets? trees? graphs? tables?
Looking inside a sentence, what is there? Are there different kinds of sentences? Explicit language modelling
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How do you write sentences down? | What alphabet do you use
How symbols are constructed in it Text? Tables? Diagrams? Unicode? Color? } |