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Happy editing! Constant314 (talk) 15:15, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Engineering Modelling languages/diagrams

I've been puddling around the likes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_diagram, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piping_and_instrumentation_diagram, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagram, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_flow_diagram and it looks like there's an under-studied common thread between these. In particular, a discussion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Symbolic_language_(engineering) shows a real doubt that these sorts of boxologies are even a topic of serious discussion.

From a philology/linguistics/semiotics perspective, this looks absolutely fascinating. Mathematics is famous for being "unreasonably effective" as an unnatural language for understanding natural phenomena. Computer Scientists have been playing back and forth between naturalistic and mathematical descriptions of computations, but they've generally restricted themselves to textual, and preferably ASCII, representations of those computations/models/systems.

MBSE looks like the focal point here, but I don't see any effort to integrate domain-specific diagrams, let alone design artifacts representing the actual implementation.

@Cypherquest Did you ever find a good resource for this? Drako365 (talk) 16:07, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh, and of course only now do I find the page for block diagrams. Between all those, I'm increasingly suspicious that nobody's bothered to study these from a linguistic perspective. That may or may not make sense, because while engineering diagrams have a smaller and more technical audience than subway maps, the information they contain is arguably much more important. Safety critical, even! Drako365 (talk) 21:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)