The quality of most artifacts is strongly affected by their fine structure. Poorly chosen data object structures at present degrade the quality of technical information including its accessibility, usability, clarity, and cohesiveness. The response has been limited but supportive. The language as designed in 1974 provides much better simplicity of expression than anything commercially available today. The torrent of needless complexity going into schools as educational technology is largely the result of decades of corporate policies to entangle users in proprietary complexity.
Simplification is basic to any engineering and central to information technology.
Use of formal language to present technical material could alter the current assumption that the main benefits of educational technology depend on expensive and rapidly changing hardware and support. The simplifications and common technical language could also alter assumptions about what kinds of information are susceptible to technical representation and analysis. Law, organizational administration, equipment manuals, philosophy, etc may be become better expressed with the help of improved formal language. Optimum data objects could be introduced prior to and as an aid to learning algebra or any technical subject matter beyond arithmetic. Some parts can be introduced earlier when instructing computers to draw simple designs.