In Praise of Procedures,

Abstract

The use of procedures vary greatly from one programming language to another. This paper discusses these variations and argues for the use of procedures in a very general fashion; in particular, procedures are an obvious vehicle to provide the data abstraction and encapsulation given in a very limited form by other language constructs such as ADA packages. The implementation of these general procedural values is also discussed with references to the Flex computer. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA121378

Entities

People

  • Ian F. Currie

Organizations

  • Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accumulators
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Encapsulation
  • Environment
  • Formal Languages
  • Language
  • Programming Languages
  • Security
  • Sequences
  • Side Effects
  • Test And Evaluation

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design