CBCL(ID:5839/cbc001)for Common Business Communication Language LISPy interdata, for business - much a forerunner of XML as datastream eg a. (REQUEST-QUOTE (YOUR-STOCK-NUMBER A7305) (UNITS 100)) b. (REQUEST-QUOTE (PENCILS #2) (GROSS 100)) c. (REQUEST-QUOTE (ADJECTIVE (PENCILS #2) YELLOW) (GROSS 100)) d. (WE-QUOTE (OUR-STOCK-NUMBER A7305) (QUANTITY 100) (DELIVERY-DATE 3-10-77) (PRICE $1.00)) People: Related languages
References: The need for such a language was suggested to me by an article by Paul Baran [Bar67]. In this article, Baran envisaged a world of the future in which companies would be well equipped with on-line computer systems. The inventory control computer of company A would write on the screen of a clerk in the purchasing department a statement that 1000 gross of such-and-such pencils were needed and that they should be purchased from company B. The clerk would turn to her typewriter and type out a purchase order. At company B another clerk would receive the purchase order and turn to her terminal and tell the computer to arrange to ship the pencils. Eliminating both clerks by having the computers speak directly to each other was not mentioned. Perhaps the author felt that he was already straining the credulity of his audience. Suppose we wish to eliminate the clerks by having the computers speak directly to each other. What are the requirements? External link: Online copy in Albert Endres and Jürgen Reetz, editors, Textverarbeitung und Bürosysteme. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich and Vienna, 1982. view details Resources
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