Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
PL/I List Processing. |
| Authors: |
Lawson, Jr., Harold W.1 |
| Source: |
Communications of the ACM. Jun67, Vol. 10 Issue 6, p358-367. 10p. 4 Diagrams. |
| Subjects: |
List processing (Electronic computers), Electronic data processing, Computer programming, Computer software, Programming languages, Data structures |
| Abstract: |
The concepts of list processing have been introduced into the PL/ I language. With these new facilities, it is possible to write PL/I procedures that operate on simple and complex data list organizations. Most list-processing languages have suffered from their inability to deal directly with complex data structures and/or from their inability to perform the complete range of programming language operations upon the data list structures. These two problems have been eliminated in the list-processing facilities of PL/I. The basic concepts of list processing and the philosophy of the PL/I language extensions are discussed. In addition, several detailed list-processing examples are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Engineering Source |
