subsubroutine

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ subroutine.

Pronunciation

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Noun

subsubroutine (plural subsubroutines)

1. (computing, rare) A subroutine called from another subroutine.
   • 1962, Robert Mills Gagné, Psychological principles in system development:

     Some programming languages even permit a subroutine to contain itself as a subsubroutine; a brain-twisting arrangement.

   • 1965, Robert Engel Machol, Wilson P Tanner, Samuel N Alexander, System engineering handbook:

     ...hierarchies of subroutines and subsubroutines were used by the programmers to simplify their own organization, introducing a series of levels of control...

   • 1990, Kurt VanLehn, Mind bugs: the origins of procedural misconceptions:

     The goal stack mechanism makes it simple to represent hierarchical procedures, where routines call subroutines, which in turn call subsubroutines...