subsubroutine

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noun

A subroutine called from another subroutine.

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Meanings

nounsubsubroutine (plural subsubroutines)

plural subsubroutines

  1. rarecomputingA subroutine called from another subroutine.

    Some programming languages even permit a subroutine to contain itself as a subsubroutine; a brain-twisting arrangement.

    1962, Robert Mills Gagné, Psychological principles in system development
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    ...hierarchies of subroutines and subsubroutines were used by the programmers to simplify their own organization, introducing a series of levels of control...

    1965, Robert Engel Machol, Wilson P Tanner, Samuel N Alexander, System engineering handbook

    The goal stack mechanism makes it simple to represent hierarchical procedures, where routines call subroutines, which in turn call subsubroutines...

    1990, Kurt VanLehn, Mind bugs: the origins of procedural misconceptions

Origin

From sub- + subroutine.

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