On designing a language for electronic commerce

  • Authors:
  • Michael A. Covington

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special issue: Systems for computer-mediated digital commerce
  • Year:
  • 1997

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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 X12 and UN EDIFACT because of its greater versatility. The new language is tentatively named LEC (Language for Electronic Commerce).