Abstract data types, then and now

  • Authors:
  • John V. Guttag

  • Affiliations:
  • Professor and Head of Computer Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Software pioneers
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Data abstraction has come to play an important role in software development. This paper presents one view of what data abstraction is, how it was viewed when it was introduced, and its long-term impact on programming.