All about SVETA

*** This site is still under construction! ***

This is another web site project created by Sven Boris Schreiber, founder of Svetlana Sleptsova Fans International and SBS Visual Biathlon. Before reading on, please note the following important warning for mental health reasons: You better don't believe any word I'm writing. The majority of people who know me think I'm totally nuts! That said, I'm going to delve right into the main topic now.

So what the heck is SVETA?

In the course of reading the future material on this site, you'll witness the evolution of a strange archetypical computer language with apparently unusual properties - which really aren't so unusual, since they are borrowed from several other scientific fields. You'll find some old familiar things here, such as Boundary Calculus, Existential Graphs, Transfinite Numbers, Reverse Polish Notation, Binary Trees, LISP, Forth, and Purely Functional Programming. The language is named SVETA, which is the acronym of Stunning Virtual Expression Tree Automat. By pure coincidence, it's also the short form of my favorite sportswoman's first name - Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova. Hence this work can be regarded as a low bow to this exceptional Russian athlete as well.

Do we really need SVETA?

Frankly, I think there's no point in creating yet another computer language. In the past 30 years, I've worked with about 10 quite different ones, and that's just a small subset of the languages available today. Meanwhile, some languages have achieved a high degree of power, flexibility, and universality, while being easy to learn as well. Do we really need more?

In my opinion, the answer is no. We can easily lay back and smile, and use the tools that are available today. They are great! There's really no need for a better C than C, or a better Java than Java, or a better LISP than LISP, or whatever you might prefer. That's not the aim of this project. However, I'm convinced that there's still a need for revisiting the fundamentals of computer languages in the first place. Actually, the popular languages of today have grown out of ingenious shots into the blue, and great as they might have been, the question whether those shots really hit the bull's eye in every case is not yet answered.

Does it pay off to care about SVETA?

The basic approach of this project is to find the primitive invariants that all computer languages and information processing in general are based upon. In other words, the aim is no less than trying to discover the mother of all programming languages. Some of you might argue that there can't be a single foundation, since everything we experience is filtered through individual perception, and hence is invariably subjective. If you think that way, I'll have a hard time to convince you of the opposite, so I won't even try. I hope you'll approach my words with an unbiased attitude, trying to find out what stunning secrets are lying there beneath them. Maybe you will suppose to see the same divine structures that I suppose I'm seeing - and that's the essential thing I'm trying to convey.

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