punctum Gesellschaft für Software mbH

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punctum specializes on converter software and services. The focus is on converters for

• text processors,
• database and spreadsheet programs,
• graphics formats,
• floppy disk and tape formats. Here we also offer special
• hardware solutions.
• We offer conversion services for a fast and cost effective conversion of your documents and data into new formats.

punctum GmbH was founded in 1987 by Henrik Arneth, Dr. Georg Fischer and Rupert Fischer in Munich. Since 1998 it is located in Kenzingen in the South-West area of Germany.

You reach us at:

These webpages reside on a server which was set up by Christian Herzog and which is hosted by dataway.ch in Zürich The server hosts the websites of a series of organizations and persons.

punctum saliens - The Salient Point

Aristoteles (Hist. Animal 6,3) speaks of the blood spot in the white of an egg as a point that hops and jumps like a living being, in the Latin translation:

quod punctum salit iam et movetur ut animal

The punctum saliens is the salient point that is most important.

The period is one of the most important punctuation marks in written language. In most programming languages the period is also an essential syntactical delimiter. In COBOL or BLISS for example beginners often experienced the fatal effects of a missing or misplaced period.

Last modification: 10-Jan-2005
Please direct any questions or comments to: <georg.fischer@t-online.de>, Dr. Georg Fischer.