Procedure-oriented language

Procedure-oriented languages, so called because they allow the programmer to concentrate on the process rather than on the machine architecture, include familiar languages, such as FORTRAN, as well as many more recently developed ones. Three of the high-level languages of common interest to engineers are ... 

In the previous section, we discussed the structure of a conceptual model that can be used to represent a design methodology. But the value of this model rests with the effectiveness of the representation schemes that one employs to describe the declarative and procedural components of the model in a way that the computer can understand. Thus, we are led to the need of defining a design-oriented language for the description of the computational process. 

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) defines an XML-based grammar for describing network services as a set of endpoints that accept messages containing either document- or procedure-oriented information. 

Dynamic binding (also known as dynamic dispatch) the principle that when a variable or similar entity is polymorphic and is passed as a parameter in a call to a function or procedure, the exact function or procedure called may not be statically determined but may depend at run-time on the class of which the variable is an instance. Most object-oriented languages support single dynamic dispatch (i.e. the choice of function or procedure called depends on at most one parameter, which is typically distinguished syntactically from the other parameters) a few support multiple dynamic dispatch. 

An object-oriented language that is connected to, or derived from, a procedural language base (C-f-1-, though a distinct language, was derived from C CLOS is an extension of Common LISP and incorporates all functions defined in this base language). 

C Language Integrated Production System (CLIPS) is a programming language shell designed for rule-based, object-oriented, and procedural software development. 

Mechatronic design procedures must therefore utilize the potential of interdiscipUnarily cooperating development teams in the sense of concurrent engineering (van Brussel 1996) in order to obtain a holistically optimized product. A challenge that has to be mastered in this context is the creation of a universal nomenclature in order to facilitate the communication between the technical disciplines involved. Moreover, a uniform concept for the description of the interactions between the different subsystems is required. Function-oriented description languages like UML or SysML fulfill this requirement on an abstract level and can thus be used for the design of the superordinate function structure. Furthermore, the appropriate involvement of optional external development partners is an absolute condition for a successful mechatronic development project. 

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