FROM STONE AGE TO INFORMATION AGE: (SOFTWARE) LANGUAGES THROUGH THE AGES

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Favre, Jean-Marie [1 ]
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[1] Univ Grenoble, LIG, Grenoble, France
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ICEIS 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, VOL ISAS-2: INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION, VOL 2 | 2008年
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Information Systems can be traced back to prehistory, although at that time the way information was recorded and transmitted was obviously rudimentary. The "invention" of writing marks the move from Prehistory to History. It played a fundamental role in the apparition of complex societies and corresponding Information Systems. In fact, the story of Information Technology is actually closely linked to the History of Writing, the History of Computing and the History of Informatics. The notion of information is obviously central to all these fields, but what is interesting and sometimes forgotten is that no information can be shared without some agreement on some kind of language. The notion of language is key, both for mankind and for Informatics. In this presentation we give a short presentation of languages, starting from natural languages, to languages for special purposes, languages for sciences and techniques, computer languages and finally what we coin as Software Languages, namely languages used to develop the Software. This includes ontologies, schemas, grammars, metamodels, and many kinds of proto-languages taking different forms. We argue that the notion of Software Language is a cornerstone of modem Information Systems. For the first time in the history of mankind implicit and informal descriptions of languages are no longer suitable to information-processing needs. Automatic processing will be possible only if the description of software languages is made explicit. We argue that this requirement should be considered both from a scientific and an engineering perspective, leading respectively to the emerging fields of Software Linguistics and Software Language Engineering.
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