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Re: what is a definition of a vis. language?

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From: Peter Gorny
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 23:51
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8914437l@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:


>What actually defines a visual language?

>does anyone have a formal definition?

>               - People who live in glass houses shouldn't!

Well, through the looking glass (of the house): take a look 
in S K Chang's book "Visual languages" - he describes a taxonomy
and some formal definitions.

Peter Gorny



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