Structured Programming

Structured Programming


Structured programming can be seen as a subset or sub-discipline of Procedural programming, one of the major paradigms (and probably the most popular one) for programming computers. It is possible to do structured programming in almost any procedural programming language, but since about 1970 when structured programming began to gain popularity as a methodology, most new procedural programming languages have included features to encourage structured programming, (and sometimes have left out features that would make unstructured programming easy). Some of the better known structured programming languages are : Pascal, Ada At the level of relatively small pieces of code, structured programming typically recommends simple,
hierarchical program flow structures. These can be obtained in most modern languages by using only structured looping constructs, often named "while", "repeat", "for". Often it is recommended that each loop should only have one entry point and one exit point, and a few languages enforce this.