| Article | |
| Title | Programming |
| Author(s) | Jackson, M A |
| Affiliation | (Michael Jackson Systems Ltd, London, UK) |
| In: | Workshop on Software in High-energy Physics : where do we go from here?, pp.1-12 |
| DOI | 10.5170/CERN-1982-012.1 |
| Subject category | Computing and Computers |
| Abstract | The programmer's task is often taken to be the construction of algorithms, expressed in hierarchical structures of procedures: this view underlies the majority of traditional programming languages, such as Fortran. A different view is appropriate to a wide class of problem, perhaps including some problems in High Energy Physics. The programmer's task is regarded as having three main stages: first, an explicit model is constructed of the reality with which the program is concerned; second, this model is elaborated to produce the required program outputs; third, the resulting program is transformed to run efficiently in the execution environment. The first two stages deal in network structures of sequential processes; only the third is concerned with procedure hierarchies. |
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