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Namespaces semipermeable membranes for APL applications

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ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, Volume 12, Issue 1

Pages 220 - 226

https://doi.org/10.1145/390007.805363

Published: 01 September 1981 Publication History

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Namespaces are proposed as an extension to APL which can provide for large APL applications the same sort of structure and communications control provided in living structures by semipermeable membranes.

Living systems are partitioned by a variety of semipermeable membranes. Those membranes provide protection and isolation for subenvironments of the entity. They also control the flow of information and material between the subenvironments.

Large applications designed for maintainability and extensibility are similar to living systems. They are hierarchically subdivided into simple subunits which are defined in terms of other subunits and which communicate with them in controlled ways.

APL and most other programming environments do not provide suitable means to enforce the isolation and communication control conventions that are appropriate for large applications. Instead isolation depends on the good intentions and discipline of the implementers and the maintenance programmers.

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Namespaces semipermeable membranes for APL applications
1. Security and privacy
  1. Systems security
    1. Information flow control
    2. Operating systems security
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad Volume 12, Issue 1

September 1981

354 pages

ISSN:0163-6006

DOI:10.1145/390007

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APL '81: Proceedings of the international conference on APL
October 1981
354 pages
ISBN:0897910354
DOI:10.1145/800142
Chairman:
Richard J. Orgass,
Editors:
William L. Anderson,
David G. Smith

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