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Perlman, Gary – 1981
This report consists of two papers on MENUNIX, an experimental interface to the approximately 300 programs and files available on the Berkeley UNIX 4.0 version of the UNIX operating system. The first paper discusses some of the psychological concerns involved in the design of MENUNIX; the second is a tutorial user manual for MENUNIX, in which the…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Design Requirements, Man Machine Systems, Online Systems
Perlman, Gary – 1982
This paper explores languages for communicating precise ideas within limited domains, which include mathematical notation and general purpose and high level computer programming languages. Low-level properties of such natural artificial languages are discussed, with emphasis on those in which names are chosen for concepts and symbols are chosen…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Design Requirements, Language Processing, Learning Processes


