Lingua Franca
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چکیده
This paper examines a set of three patterns that examine the issues that arise when data are to be shared among several applications in one or more different formats. When an ENGLISH ONLY/STANDARD REPRESENTATION can be used, conversion and translation are moot issues. However, this simplicity is not without its cost. When freely CONVERTIBLE CURRENCIES are available, data are not isolated and trapped by incompatible representations. However, as the number of formats increases, conversion becomes a complicated problem. A LINGUA FRANCA addresses the problem posed when representations proliferate. If a standard secondary tongue is adopted, a much smaller number of translators or converters is required to ensure universal translation.
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