An interactive keyboard for man-computer communication
Larry L. Wear, Richard C. Dorf · 1970
With the advent of time-sharing and remote terminals, people who have little or no programming experience are becoming computer users. One of the reasons these people have been attracted to using time-sharing computers is that the programming languages available have been made relatively simple and easy to use. BASIC is an example of the type of language that has become popular in the time-sharing community. Other languages have been developed for such fields as numerical control. Languages such as these which have been developed using terminology and syntax which are consistent with the terminology and syntax of a given field of interest are called natural languages.