Use of High Level Languages for Sytems Programming

Abstract

(This paper is a slightly edited version of a transcript so that it still contains the colloquial flavor of the oral presentation.) I'm going to talk about languages for systems programming what they can do for us, and what we might expect from them in the future. These comments are largely based on my experience with the Multics System and I'll quote a few figures from Multics as we go along. I'm concerned particularly with large complex system.