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Form

A good agent communication language should be declarative, syntactically simple, and readable by people. It should be concise, yet easy to parse and to generate. To transmit a statement of the language to another agent, the statement must pass through the bit stream of the underlying transport mechanism. Thus, the language should be linear or should be easily translated into a linear form. Finally, because a communication language will be integrated into a wide variety of systems, its syntax should be extensible.