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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Dec 29, 2000 8:11 pm Subject: SignWriting Programming In Brazil ;-> | ||||||||
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SignWriting List December 29, 2000 Dear SignWriting List Members! I look forward to reading your recent messages! In the past few days I have not been online....Instead I have been totally emersed in fascinating conversations about computer programming with my Brazilian guests, Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa and his beautiful wife Graçaliz, from Pelotas in sourthern Brazil. They just left my home a few hours ago, driving north to Los Angeles to take the long flight back to Brazil. We live on the other side of the world from each other...I feel so fortunate that they came to visit me all the way to southern California!! And I have much to share with all of you. I learned about different computer programs being developed in Brazil to type SignWriting...There are several impressive programming projects in Brazil...each one unique and serving different purposes. I also learned about computer languages. As you know, computers are run by software, and software is developed by computer programmers using special "programming languages". Some well-known programming languages are Basic, Pascal, Think-C, Java, and of course HTML, which is used to create web sites.... And there are many more programming languages too...in fact there is a long list! The programming languages that end in "ML"...like HTML, or XML, or VML ....the "ML" means "Markup Language", and it is used to develop new kinds of programs on the web. HTML means "HyperText Markup Language" XML means "Extensible Markup Language" VML means "Vector Markup Language"...which provides XML-based graphics for the web... So Antonio Carlos is developing a new ML called "SWML", for "SignWriting Markup Language", which will someday be used to type email in SignWriting on the web....called "SignWriting Web Mail"....isn't that exciting? Someday, we won't have to attach GIF files, because we will be able to type email messages directly in SignWriting. And there are more aspects to Antonio Carlos' and Grazaliz's work with SignWriting programming. Their work is multi-faceted. Much of this will be posted on the web in time with detailed explanations....The work may lead to other new developments in computer programming...For example, SWML and Unicode will someday be intertwined to make typing directly in SignWriting a reality on computers with or without the SignWriter Computer Program. So right now, web designers using SignWriting...like Stefan, Jerry, myself and others...we all make GIFs or JPEGs. It takes a long time to do a web page in SignWriting right now because of that. But SignWriting web design in the future will be like typing English or German words into a web page. Thanks to SWML...it will speed up SW web design work quite a bit! I feel so grateful to Antonio Carlos and Grazaliz, that they have chosen to do this time-consuming, long-term work. It is a blessing that will in time affect all SignWriting users... So we have much to be thankful for! The year 2001 looks very bright indeed ;-) I look forward to chatting online soon - My very best wishes to everyone! -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l To post a message to the SW List: To manage your SW List email: for No Mail: SET SW-L NOMAIL for Digest Mail: SET SW-L DIGEST for Regular Mail: SET SW-L MAIL for Member List: REVIEW SW-L by NAME to Leave SW List: SIGNOFF SW-L to Join SW List: SUB SW-L firstname lastname | ||||||||
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