History: The Rise and Decline of Structured Programming

For many years (roughly 1970 to 1990), structured programming was the most common way to organize a program. This is characterized by a functional-decomposition style - breaking the algorithms in to every smaller functions. This technique was a great improvement over the ad hoc programming which preceded it. However, as programs became larger, structured programming was not able control the exponential increase in complexity.

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