Procedure-oriented languages

Authors:
Tony L. Cox;David Hemmendinger;David Hemmendinger
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Encyclopedia of Computer Science
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Procedure-oriented languages (POLs) are artificial languages used to define, in a form understandable to humans, the actions required by a computer to solve a problem. The higher-level form of a POL frees a programmer from the time-consuming and often tedious chore of expressing algorithms in lower-level languages such as assembly and machine language (see MACHINE AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING). Additionally, in a POL actions are expressed in a machine-independent form that greatly eases the burden of moving a program from one computer to another (see PORTABILITY). This increases the lifetime and usefulness of the program.