A history of CLU

1 March 1993

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

Vol. 28 (3) , 133-147
https://doi.org/10.1145/155360.155367

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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