computer programming, a function, subprogram, procedure, method, routine or subroutine is a callable unit that has a well-defined behavior and can be invoked...

stack is a stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program. This type of stack is also known as an execution...

subroutine is a subroutine which cannot in turn call another subroutine. Some compilers can apply special program optimizations to leaf subroutines,...

special kind of variable used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine. These pieces of data are the values...

where the code has a form that essentially consists entirely of calls to subroutines. It is often used in compilers, which may generate code in that form...

Reentrancy is a programming concept where a function or subroutine can be interrupted and then resumed before it finishes executing. This means that the...

Procedure (computer science), also termed a subroutine, function, or subprogram Stored procedure, a subroutine in the data dictionary of a relational database...

no subroutines, would have the lowest count. However, the binary size of such a program may be larger than the same program coded using subroutines (as...

idempotent subroutines where at least one subroutine is different from the others, however, is not necessarily idempotent if a later subroutine in the sequence...

to implement a computer program. Historically, a library consisted of subroutines (generally called functions today). The concept now includes other forms...