COMMAND LANGUAGES.

Abstract

This conference brought together users and designers of operating systems with the purpose of establishing a common base for further research into command languages and their design considerations. Twenty-five papers are presented on the following topics: functions and facilities analysis; the relationship of command languages to general purpose programming languages; formal descriptions of operating systems from the user's viewpoint; portability and machine independence; and network command languages. Manuscripts of the discussions following each paper and of panel discussions are included. Selected papers are indexed separately.