Bento and Opendoc
I guess there just aren't enough words. Apple's ahead-of-its-time OpenDoc framework used a storage system called Bento. (According to
David McCusker, Ira Ruben was the implementor of Bento; that must have
been just before I got to Apple in 1995. Ira and Fred F. and I were all working on
the MrC/MrCpp compiler until the March 1997 NeXT-related layoffs, which
killed OpenDoc.)
Now there's a new
Bento, which is an Object-oriented markup language.
(Seen on the
Lambda Weblog discussion group.)
This Bento is similar in intent to the perl-based
Mason.
The word "Bento" is from the Japanese, meaning (roughly) a boxed lunch.
Not enough words. Hmmm ... I think it was Ursula Leguin's "The Dispossessed"
that introduced the idea of assigned names for the people on a planet. If we take
5 vowels and, say, 18 consonants, and say that the only patterns words can have
are cv, cvcv, cvcvcv, etc., then once we get to four syllables, we have a bit over
65 million words; five syllables gives us 5,904,900,000 which is almost enough
for one word per human on the planet today.
11:59:13 PM
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