Software that translates a high-level request into the low-level commands required to perform the operation. The most common abstraction layer is the programming interface (API) between an ...

The lower the level, the more detail. The highest level of abstraction is the entire system. The next level would be a handful of components, and so on, while the lowest level could be millions of ...

Having spent more time with Rails lately than ever before, I've been both amazed by and concerned about the level of abstraction afforded by that framework. It truly does make certain things "easy ...

The Microsoft CPO says it's possible software engineers will be viewed as "software operators" in the future, but the role is ...

These programming languages abstract away the complexities of an assembler, allowing a programmer to work with higher-level instructions (like e.g. for-loops and if-then-else conditions), which ...

The emphasis here is on “high-level programming language,” as the researchers behind the language note that existing quantum languages for programmers still work at a very low abstraction ...

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the ... You can work at the highest levels of abstraction and spit out HTML websites (Django’s specialty), but you can also get closer to ...

His cycle accurate SystemC models were running at about 100 KHz. This got me thinking about how many different levels of abstraction are really needed. In thinking through the levels available I ...

Leuven, Belgium Abstract: In the context of todays increasingly complex SoC's there is a need for design methodologies that start at higher levels of abstraction. Transactional modeling can become ...