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• Structured programming is a programming paradigm aimed at improving the clarity, quality, and development time of a computer program by making specific disciplined use of the structured control flow constructs of selection (if/then/else) and repetition (while and for), block structures, and subroutines.
  • Структурное программирование парадигма программирования, в основе которой лежит представление программы в виде иерархической структуры блоков.

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• The Structured Programming movement (Djikstra, Hoare, Wirth, the Pascal language, etc.) first addressed the problem of overly complicated control structures. The conclusion was that control structures would be easier to understand, maintain, and validate if they had a single entry point. The main violator of this principle was the goto statement. Unfortunately, many programmers take this idea too far and tend to avoid writing control structures with multiple exit points, which, ironically, can greatly simplify a control structure.