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abstract data type: a standalone construct

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Computer science

a data type defined only by the operations on it, hiding its representation from the programs that use it.

In computer science, abstract data type refers to a data type defined only by the operations on it, hiding its representation from the programs that use it. This meaning comes from Liskov (1974) in ACM SIGPLAN Notices.[1]

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References

Liskov, B., & Zilles, S. (1974). Programming with abstract data types. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 9(4), 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1145/942572.807045

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