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Subroutine vs Subsubroutine - What's the difference?

subroutine | subsubroutine |

As nouns the difference between subroutine and subsubroutine

is that subroutine is a section of code, called by the main body of a program, that implements a task while subsubroutine is a subroutine called from another subroutine.

subroutine

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Noun

(wikipedia subroutine) (en noun)
  • (computer science) A section of code, called by the main body of a program, that implements a task.

    • subsubroutine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 ...