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Well, I was spending a lot of time wondering how far I could stretch the definition of  modeling language.  It turns out the definition is very stretchy. I was worried that a graphically oriented interface for ISML would cause it to cease to be a modeling language.  Turns out I was wrong. Quoting from Wikipedia :  A modeling language is any artificial language that can be used to express information or knowledge or systems in a structure that is defined by a consistent set of rules... A modeling language can be graphical or textual. ISML fits the definition well.  I'm going to stop worrying about my initialism and get back to work.

ISML is still very much vaporware.  I've been going down many blind alleys during the brainstorming phase.  I've been throwing away lots of clumsy design concepts.  What remains, though, seems solid and interesting.  I'm not ready to publish these ideas at this time, but I will say that it's starting to look like the 'L' in ISML may stand for Lab rather than Language.