Computer language design schema

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Lecture by Vadim Zaytsev

Domain

What will the language be used for?

Topic, theme, problems, concerns


Ontology

What are the entities of this domain?

State, things, events, concepts, properties, composition

Schema

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

Grammar

How do you write sentences down?

What alphabet do you use How are symbols constructed in it Text? Tables? Diagrams? Unicode? Color?