Darn them pesky Endians

In any distributed system involving heterogeneous computer nodes, over the long time frame the system designer must inevitably face up to the problem of endianness.  For Mitopia®, this reality hit …

Carmot ODL (7) – various

This post is number 7 in a sequence of 7.  Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘<on>’ and ‘<no>’ symbols The ‘<on>’ and ‘<no>’ symbols are used to begin and …

Carmot ODL (5) – echo fields

This post is number 5 in a sequence of 7.  Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘><’, ‘><><‘, and ‘?><‘ symbols – echo fields The echo field symbols were added …

Carmot ODL (4) – ‘@@’

This post is number 4 in a sequence of 7.  Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘@@’ symbol – relative collection reference The ‘@@’ symbol, as one might expect given …

Carmot ODL (3) – ‘##’

This post is number 3 in a sequence of 7.  Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘##’ symbol – persistent collection ref. The ‘##’ symbol, as one might expect given …

Carmot ODL (2) – ‘#’

This post is number 2 in a sequence of 7.  Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘#’ symbol – Persistent ref. The persistent reference symbol ‘#’ is used …

Carmot ODL (1) – ‘@’

As mentioned previously (see here), the Carmot ontology definition language (ODL) is an extension of the C programming language, which itself is perhaps the most widespread and fundamental high level language …