Programming Support Library (PSL). Technical Report

Abstract

Over the past several years the structured programming technology has gained wide use and acceptance throughout the Department of Defense. The concept of structured programming is to define a program with a single entry point and a single exit point, and to code in such a manner as to develop lower level functions as pieces which plug into higher level functions. By significantly reducing the number of interfaces, potential error points are eliminated. Structured programs tend to be less error prone, easier to read, easier to maintain; these characteristics obviously are attractive to cost-conscious projects with software contents. The structured programming discipline requires tools to support the implementation. Those tools germane to this report include: precompilers which accept structured source code and translate the structure figures into unstructured code acceptable to the respective compiler; and programming support libraries which maintain code at the unit (single page of code) level.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA107250

Entities

Organizations

  • International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Fish
  • Language
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Structured Programming
  • System Software

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Computer Science.
  • Systems Analysis and Design