Use of the concept of transparency in the design of hierarchically structured systems
- 1 July 1975
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 18 (7), 401-408
- https://doi.org/10.1145/360881.360913
Abstract
This paper deals with the design of hierarchically structured programming systems. It develops a method for evaluating the cost of requiring programmers to work with an abstraction of a real machine. A number of examples from hardware and software are given as illustrations of the method.Keywords
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