On Designing a Language for Electronic Commerce
Michael A. Covington · International Journal of Electronic Commerce · 1997
: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).