(18-09-2017, 01:42 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't know whether my view qualifies as a code. I'm more inclined to see the VM as a cultural product, though I'm not sure about the script. I do lean towards the possibility that this script was used among a group of people.
Basically my question is: what is the diffetence between a script and a substitution code (of any type)?
That's a good question.
It seems to me that a script is something that is agreed-upon that people with a certain level of education or familiarity can recognize and read. It's created mainly to communicate, not to obfuscate, even if that communication is within a relatively small group (missionaries often created new scripts when they did mission work in cultures where there was no written language and where the missionary's native script didn't adequately convey the sounds in the mission area's language).
A code is a substitute for the generally recognized and agreed-upon script that might be created 1) for practical reasons (as in a code to organize office files, a list of initials for each kind of document, for example) or 2) to obfuscate the original script with the intent of making it harder for those "not in the know" to read.
Cryptographers have more precise meanings for words like code and cipher, so I'm using the word "code" in a broader sense (and hopefully not raising too many hairs on the backs of cryptographers' necks).