Cybernetics Oriented Language (CYBOL)

Abstracting the real world is a major aim of Informatics. This paper introduces a new Theory and Language which allow to better abstract the real world in clear and simplified Models than today’s software does. It thereby helps crossing a number of abstraction gaps that each software project has to go through in its lifetime. Sticking to Cybernetics, this paper means that one of the first things to consider for developing good software is how Human Thinking works and how it creates Abstractions. Fundamental principles of human thinking are Discrimination, Categorization and Composition. The abstractions they deliver are Item, Category and Compound. They help the human mind to understand its environment which exists as conglomerate, and to build meaningful models from it.ing the real world is a major aim of Informatics. This paper introduces a new Theory and Language which allow to better abstract the real world in clear and simplified Models than today’s software does. It thereby helps crossing a number of abstraction gaps that each software project has to go through in its lifetime. Sticking to Cybernetics, this paper means that one of the first things to consider for developing good software is how Human Thinking works and how it creates Abstractions. Fundamental principles of human thinking are Discrimination, Categorization and Composition. The abstractions they deliver are Item, Category and Compound. They help the human mind to understand its environment which exists as conglomerate, and to build meaningful models from it.