Program development by stepwise refinement
Communications of the ACM
Software Tools
The effect of modularization and comments on program comprehension
ICSE '81 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Software engineering
Principles of Program Design
Portable Character Processing in Fortran and Fixed Integer Environments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Lessons from the design of the Eiffel libraries
Communications of the ACM
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Subprogram packages are groups of related subroutines used to extend the available facilities in a programming system. The results of developing several such packages for various applications are presented, with a distinction made between external and internal design criteria— what properties packages should offer to their users and the guidelines designers should follow in order to provide them. An important issue, the design of reusable software, is thus addressed, and the concept of abstract data types proposed as a desirable solution.