Syntax Goals

Aims and Constraints

• Expressive enough for all problems and formats
• Expressive enough for solutions with postprocessing
• Common problem and solution language
• Arbitary annotations
• Easy for humans to read and write
  • Using a plain text editor
  • Compact
• Easy for programs to parse.
• Backward compatible with TPTP syntax
• Extensible
• Local context and semantics

Human and Programmed Users

• Humans interact with
  • Problems
  • Intermediate data
  • Solutions
• Machine-only syntaxes ignore the human user
• Make the machines work, not the people