Text-Oriented Software

Computers are text machines. This does not mean that we can use computers for text among other purposes. It means that text is all computers are about, the only material that they store and manipulate. This book proposes a fundamental concept of text that reveals that documents, media, relational databases and source code are nothing but particular kinds of texts. The fundamental concept of text will furnish a ground for software integration that will lead to deeply unified computer systems far beyond the current ones, it will provide a way to escape the current Tower of Babel in computing and open up new promising paths.