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subsubroutine en · NOUN

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Etymology

From sub- + subroutine.

Meanings

1. (rare) A 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:
   • ...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:

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