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Man-computer dialogues are viewed as languages and the relationship between programming languages and menu plus form dialogues is shown. Syntax notation is used for dialogue description and design. It is shown how to construct a man-machine system where the user can switch freely between programming language style of interface and a dialogue of menus and forms.
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Hall, P.A.V. (1978). Man-computer dialogues for many levels of competence. In: Bracchi, G., Lockemann, P.C. (eds) Information Systems Methodology. ECI 1978. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-08934-9_102
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