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Use of the concept of transparency in the design of hierarchically structured systems

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D. P. SiewiorekAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 18, Issue 7

Pages 401 - 408

https://doi.org/10.1145/360881.360913

Published: 01 July 1975 Publication History

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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.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 18, Issue 7

July 1975

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EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/360881

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