Towards a computer language for the i-society

Abstract

In this paper it is argued that the i-society needs a computer languages for broad user classes. This language should be universally applicable on tables, documents, and sets of documents. Further, it should allow graphical representations and should be built on concepts, which are as simple as possible. We believe that the corresponding operations of this language should be taught not only in higher schools, but also in basic ones. If we look carefully to the examples of the paper we will observe that our language OttoQL can even be used in very early classes of the primary school. We believe that XML with the understanding of OttoQL is a good starting point for such a universal computer language. OttoQL is implemented over XML-files and tables and has some efficient operations, which are easy to use, as we believe, and a very promising file concept (h2o). Nevertheless, we believe that OttoQL and its efficiency can be improved by further concepts.