structured programming

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING

Structured programming, sometimes known as modular programming, is a subset of procedural programming that enforces a logical structure on the program being written to make it more efficient and easier to understand and modify. Orrrr To many people, Edsger W. Dijkstra's letter to the Editor of Communications of the ACM, published in March 1968, marks the true beginning of structured programming. Structured programming can be seen as a subset or subdiscipline of imperative programming, one of the major programming paradigms. It is most famous for removing or reducing reliance on the GOTO statement. Edsger Dijkstra's subsequent article, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" was instrumental in the trend towards structured programming. Description of the inverse relationship between a programmer's ability and the density of goto statements in his program is repeated.[1]