Commands

We have now met two of the three statement types available in direct mode, the immediate and assignment statements. We now introduce the third and most important one, the command. Commands are used for three purposes.

• To provide features of the ICL system itself -- These are commands such as PRINT, EDIT, LIST etc.
• To call procedures written in ICL.
• To provide the commands of the system ICL is being used to run -- In this case ADAM.