A History of CLU

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AuthorsBarbara Liskov
Typetechreport
Year1993
Citekeyliskov1993history

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PublisherMIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Number in seriesMIT/LCS/TR-561

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Abstract

The idea of a data abstraction has had a significant impact on the development of programming languages and on programming methodology. CLU was the first implemented programming language to provide direct linguistic support for data abstraction. This paper provides a history of data abstraction and CLU. CLU contains a number of other interesting and influential features, including its exception handling mechanism, its iterators, and its parameterized types.

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@techreport{liskov1993history,
  title        = {A History of CLU},
  author       = {Barbara Liskov},
  year         = {1993},
  publisher    = {MIT Laboratory for Computer Science},
}

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