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Design features
[edit]- Simple English
same name regardless of tense, number, etc. infinitive form of action first person singular form of attribute concept of Natural Semantic Metalanguage[1]
- UNIX shell[2]
variable method conditional iteration no wild card no pipe
Note that wild cards and pipes are available when executing the UNIX shell.
- Context
genus-differentia definition[3] context = space, time, view[4] view = name of proposition list space, time = attributes of action entity-characteristic-proposition hierarchy hierarchy outline for input/output
Ayn Rand do speak od mKR done; # Anything Ayn Rand said can be expressed in mKR.
- ^ 1996, Anna Wierzbicka, Semantics: Primes and Universals, Oxford University Press.
- ^ 1995, Morris I. Bolsky, David G. Korn, The New KornShell Command and Programming Language, Prentice-Hall.
- ^ 1990, Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, Expanded Second Edition, Meridian.
- ^ 1995, Keith Devlin, Logic and Information, Cambridge University Press.