A significant complication, however, is that although the vast majority of chemistry uses English nomenclature, a significant fraction is in other languages. Fortunately, advances in computing power now allow chemical names to be parsed and generated (read and written) with almost the same ease as conventional connection tables. In research articles, patents, chemical catalogues, government legislation, and textbooks, the use of IUPAC and traditional compound names is universal, despite efforts to introduce more machine-friendly representations such as identifiers and line notations. Chemical compound names remain the primary method for conveying molecular structures between chemists and researchers.
