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Approaches to based storage in PL/I

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In this paper it is shown how the topic of BASED storage in PL/I can be used to illustrate a wide variety of concepts in intermediate level courses in data structures and programming languages. Because most instructors introduce the topic only from the point of view of a linked list, the true meaning of BASED storage and POINTERs is lost in the maze of practical problems which these features can be used to solve. Because BASED storage allows the programmer close access to physical storage, an understanding of these features goes a long way toward clarifying the behind the scenes actions involved in implementing and using data structures in high level languages.

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  3. 3 IBM, "Introduction to the LIst Processing Facilities of PL/I", GF20-0015, IBM.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. 4 IBM, "Techniques for Processing Lists in PL/I", GF20-0018, IBMGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar

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                  cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
                  ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 9, Issue 1
                  Special issue seventh technical symposium on computer science education
                  Feb 1977
                  187 pages
                  ISSN:0097-8418
                  DOI:10.1145/382063
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                    SIGCSE '77: Proceedings of the seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
                    February 1977
                    187 pages
                    ISBN:9781450374071
                    DOI:10.1145/800104

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