Name
Abstract | ||
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Programming languages serve a dual purpose: to communicate programs to computers, and to communicate programs to humans. Indeed, it is this dual purpose that makes programming language design a constrained and challenging problem. Inheritance is an essential aspect of that second purpose: it is a tool to improve communication. Humans understand new concepts most readily by first looking at a number of concrete examples, and later abstracting over those examples. The essence of inheritance is that it mirrors this process: it provides a formal mechanism for moving from the concrete to the abstract. |
Year | Venue | DocType |
|---|---|---|
2016 | A List of Successes That Can Change the World | Journal |
Volume | Citations | PageRank |
abs/1601.02059 | 1 | 0.35 |
References | Authors | |
6 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew P. Black | 1 | 1566 | 366.84 |
| Kim B. Bruce | 2 | 1169 | 168.81 |
| James Noble | 3 | 1683 | 163.52 |