John S. James

“ Clearly natural language is too free, and computer languages like BNF are too restrictive, to be feasible. But a hybrid, a vocabulary of several hundred unambiguous words (each used in one sense only) , and perhaps some computer-oriented syntactical markers, should be enough for useful dialog within a particular interest area. If it works for two languages it should work as well for any number. The final test—whether international teams could collaborate, after minimal training—would take a few weeks programming at most, after the vocabularies and terminal interfaces had been determined. ”

“ REST MOD ; 6 : ODER OR ; : /REST /MOD ; : 0SETZEN 0SET ; 7 : 1SETZEN 1SET ; : HIER HERE ; VERGESSEN FORGET ; 8 : SCHLUSSEL CODE ; : BESTANDIG CONSTANT ; 9 : GANZE INTEGER ; : ORDNUNG ARRAY ; : IORDNUNG IARRAY ; 10 : SETZEN SET ; 11 : AUFS-LAUFENDE UPDATE ; : AUSRADIEREN ERASE-CORE ; 12 : LADEN LOAD ; : ZURUCK CR ; 13 : SCHREIBEN TYPE ; : BASIS BASE ; 14 15 16 ( THE SAME: DUP, MINUS, =L, BLOCK, ;S, F) ;S The control operation definitions (OB, DANN, SONST, BEGINNEN, ENDEN, TUN, SCHLINGE, +SCHLINGE) are not shown here; they are all short (one line) , and exact copies of the English operations. ”