An overview of nonprocedural languages

  • Authors:
  • Burt M. Leavenoworth;Jean E. Sammet

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

This paper attempts to describe some of the basic characteristics and issues involving the class of programming languages commonly referred to as “nonprocedural” or “very high level”. The paper discusses major issues such as terminology, relativeness, and arbitrary sequencing. Five features of nonprocedural languages are described, and a number of specific languages are discussed briefly. A short history of the subject is included.