Re: LOGO-L> Language vs Visual

[Jeff <jeffr@mugc.cc.monash.edu.au>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, James E. Hoburg wrote:
> > characters machine readable. Character sets of all flavours for human 
> > writing systems are highly refined and evolved VISUAL designs.
>   Braille?
>   Until you have criteria for measuring difficulty how do you know?  You
> appear to to be asserting this because you believe evolved systems of
> representation to be superior to designed systems intended for
> machine-readability--and this may be so--but how do you *know*?
One of the reasons alphabetic/ideographic writing systems have been so 
succesful is that they embody high redundancy. This alone is an enormous 
advantage over Morse.

Jeff
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