In Praise of Procedures,
I. F. Currie, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern (UK) · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1982
The use of procedures vary greatly from one programming language to another. This paper discusses these variations and argues for the use of procedures in a very general fashion; in particular, procedures are an obvious vehicle to provide the data abstraction and encapsulation given in a very limited form by other language constructs such as ADA packages. The implementation of these general procedural values is also discussed with references to the Flex computer. (Author)