I Just Called...

Stevie Wonder's first UK chart topper, ultimately winning a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Not bad. Granted, Stevie Wonder has gone on to write many more pop hits. His album Songs in the Key of Life (almost as old as I am!) is probably his best album in his substantial discography, considered by Rolling Stone to be in the top 100 of all albums of all time.

This week you'll be looking hard at understanding calling conventions in several different languages. Specifically, what happens when you call a PROC in occam-π or a method in Java. It has nothing to do with Stevie Wonder, but it's an incredible disk.

Your Resources

You can use any resources on the net that you like. Specifically, you might find  Ben-Ari's Understanding Programming Languages useful, which I have trimmed  down to just Chapter 7. This chapter is about subprograms, which might also be called functions, or methods, or procedures, depending on your programming language. You can grab it from our password-protected area. The full text is available online, and is linked in from the Resources section of the site.

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