OP here, again. Thanks to everyone who read and commented! To answer a couple of questions: Mimix doesn't force to you reveal everything included in your work

OP here, again. Thanks to everyone who read and commented! To answer a couple of questions: Mimix doesn't force to you reveal everything included in your work ("how the sausage was made"); it's simply there if you want to. This feature is mostly for you, the author, to get to your "ah-ha" moments as Vannevar Bush called them. Right now, we don't have software that does a good job of connecting facts inside documents. MSL is a language for building tools which we hope can eventually replace the word processor. We are at an early stage with that software which will be open sourced once it's ready. The hybrid database on which MSL relies could be viewed as the ultimate version control system because it allows rewinding any single variable (a semantic assignment statement) to any value it had in its history. Mimix certainly draws from the semantic web, but that's not our secret sauce. Today, Google and Stanford already have good libraries for figuring out what is a noun, what is a verb, etc. Where MSL shines is, as @MiniMax42 pointed out, in marking up that text so that it can later be analyzed or transformed in ways that are difficult with word processing documents. While we hope to see this technology become ubiquitous, the best early use case is high-value documents like medical, scientific, legal and financial papers, as @jpalomaki said. Thanks again! -- D