Characteristics of a structured program

1 May 1978

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Vol. 13 (5) , 36-45
https://doi.org/10.1145/953395.953398

Abstract

Structured programing is the set of design and implementation processes that yield well-structured programs. A well-structured program can be identified by the presence of five positive characteristics, and the absence of two negative characteristics.

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