Modelling of storage properties of higher level languages
Kurt Walk · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1971
The role of storage in the characterization of higher level programming languages is discussed. Assignment, in particular, has significantly different meaning in different languages, which can hardly be understood without reference to an underlying model of storage. A general storage model is sketched which can be specialized to a model of ALGOL 68 or of PL/I storage. The same model is used to discuss language features allowing highly flexible data structures.