Program Design Language

Program Design Language (or PDL, for short) is a method for designing and documenting methods and procedures in software. It is related to pseudocode, but unlike pseudocode, it is written in plain language without any terms that could suggest the use of any programming language or library.

PDL was originally developed by the company Caine, Farber & Gordon ^[1] and has been modified substantially since they published their initial paper on it in 1975. It has been described in some detail by Steve McConnell in his book Code Complete .

See also

• Pseudocode
• FLOW CHART

References

1. Caine, Stephen H.; Gordon, E. Kent (1975-05-19). "PDL: a tool for software design". Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition. AFIPS '75. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 271–276. doi:10.1145/1499949.1499995. ISBN   978-1-4503-7919-9.

External links

• Using PDL for Code Design and Documentation
• PDL/81 Home Page by Caine, Farber & Gordon, Inc.
• C STYLE GUIDE from Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.