Computer language design schema

By Vadim Zaytsev

Domain	Ontology	Schema	Grammar
What will the language be used for? Topic, theme, problems, concerns	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	How do you write sentences down? What alphabet do you use How symbols are constructed in it Text? Tables? Diagrams? Unicode? Color?