Toward a new type of language for electronic commerce
Abstract
This paper surveys practical issues in the design of a
formal language for business communication (FLBC) in
which transactions are put together by combining meaningful
elements, much as a programming language encodes
algorithms. Such a language is preferable to existing codes
such as ANSI X.12 and UN EDIFACT because of its much
greater versatility. The new language is tentatively named
LEC (Language for Electronic Commerce).