Modular programming in C

1 March 1985

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Vol. 20 (3) , 9-15
https://doi.org/10.1145/382284.382285

Abstract

Unlike ADA or Modula-2, the programming language C is not inherently modular. But by exploiting certain features of the language it is possible to build modular design into C programs. This has advantages in large programming projects where source code will be written by many programmers, or in applications calling for a collection of syntactically identical interconnected modules.The approach suggested here is not as ambitious as in Stroustrup [1982], requiring a change to the C compiler; rather, standard C (Kernighan & Ritchie [1978]) is used. This is more in keeping with the work of Boyd [1983, 1984].

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Free and bound generics
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1984
Modular C
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1983
Classes
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1982