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Abstraction Mechanisms in CLU
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Barbara Liskov
Alan Snyder
Russell Atkinson
Craig Schaffert
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Laboratory for Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
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This research was supported in part by the Advanced Research
Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, monitored by the
Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-75-C-0661, and
in part by the National Science Foundation under grant DCR74-21892.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Computer Science
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(formerly Project MAC)
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Computation Structures Group Memo csg_memo-1
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Abstraction Mechanisms in CLU
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Barbara Liskov
Alan Snyder
Russell Atkinson
Craig Schaffert
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This research was supported in part by the Advanced Research
Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, monitored by the
Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-75-C-0661, and
in part by the National Science Foundation under grant DCR74-21892.
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January 1977
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ABSTRACT
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CLU is a new programming language designed to support
the use of abstractions in program construction.
Work in programming methodology has led to the realization
that three kinds of abstractions,
procedural, control, and especially data abstractions,
are useful in the programming process.
Of these, only the procedural abstraction
is supported well by conventional languages,
through the procedure or subroutine.
CLU provides, in addition to procedures,
novel linguistic mechanisms that
support the use of data and control abstractions.
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This paper provides an introduction to the abstraction mechanisms
in CLU.
By means of programming examples, we illustrate the utility of
the three kinds of abstractions in program construction
and show how CLU programs may be written to use
and implement abstractions.
We also discuss the CLU library, which permits
incremental program development with complete
type-checking performed at compile-time.
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Key words and phrases: programming languages, data types,
data abstractions, control abstractions, programming
methodology, separate compilation.
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CR categories: 4.22, 4.0, 4.12.
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