Computer language design schema
| Domain | Ontology | Schema | Grammar |
|---|---|---|---|
| What will the language be used for?
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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? |