While the first two generations of programming languages were highly machine-dependent, 3GLs, which are sometimes referred to as mid-level and sometimes high-level languages, can run on different ...

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Abstraction and separation of concerns have proven their worth time and again in dealing with and breaking down complexities and inconsistencies in very large and distributed systems.

For programming and integration, you obviously need an open and accessible API. (Whereby the world converges on XML somehow.

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MUNICH, Germany — Jianwen Zhu, a professor at the University of Toronto, proposed a new register-transfer level (RTL) abstraction syntax which he claimed can be implemented by a modest extension to ...

The next level would be a handful of components, and so on, while the lowest level could be millions of objects. See abstraction layer. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.