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Modeling of storage properties of higher-level languages

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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.

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Revised version of a paper presented at the ACM Symposium on Data Structures in Programming Languages, University of Florida, Gainesville, February 25–27, 1971.

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Walk, K. Modeling of storage properties of higher-level languages. International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 2, 1–24 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00987149

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