Tab, a Program Design Language for the classroom

Authors:
John T. Welch, Jr.
Affiliations:
The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Venue:
SIGCSE '76 Proceedings of the sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1976

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Abstract

A Program Design Language, or PDL, is a structured and program-like format for prose descriptions of computer algorithms. Syntax rules of the PDL, while few in number and informal in comparison with those of a compiled language, do impose a needed structure on the description, making the flow of control within the algorithm and its division into logically separate parts apparent to the reader. This paper introduces a Program Design Language to be called Tab. The name is suggested by the primary principle of its design: that the grouping of statements into structures be governed by indentations to equally spaced tab positions.