Words & symbols
Word structures are evolving from just their human communications applications, to also incorporate the needs of the various environments within which communications take place. Recent examples include WikiWords & smilies & twitterContractions. In effect, our use of the alphabet is adapting and expanding to incorporated new character strings that can be recognized more efficiently by various ManMachineInterfaces, as well as many new symbols. I’m sufficiently intrigued by this that I’m planning to research it further.
Comments from any interested parties are more than welcome.
Comments from any interested parties are more than welcome.
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Part of my work research in this area is to extend Ward’s original CamelCase link patterns to other strings. For example…
* “lowerCase” - has been found to be useful since it is clearly not recognized by most wiki engines as a link, but really is quite useful as a “tag” in particular wiki engines that focus on tagging (such as TiddlyWiki - given its AJAX foundation). It’s also important to recognize that Javascript provides some support for associativeArrays (sparse data structures that recognize strings as valid index into a named variable), since this means that compound Objects can be indexed effectively and efficiently via standard Tag names.
* A relatively full set of 00h-FFh symbols are available in various software environments. This is particularly useful in systems such as TheBrain, which (like SQL based system) assignes a Globally Unique ID (GUID) as an object reference, as well as a symbol that can generally be an element of any code page supported by a system.
It’s been a while since I looked at “Wagn”, so I’ll circle back and see what I’ve missed before contacting John.
Thanks, again!