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From: gp@ist.CO.UK (GP Saxena)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Structured Programming
Keywords: Structured Attitude Object Oriented
Message-ID: <471@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Date: 4 Mar 89 14:50:46 GMT
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK
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Summary: Structured Programming is an attitude/approach.

Structured programming is a misnomer. I think what we should be
talking about is a Structured Approach to Programming. One can write
structured programs in  any language, including microprogram languages,
assembly langauages. Therefore, it does not make sense to talk of 
"structured programming languages" and the like. 
Just as a bad carpenter blames his tools, so a badly structured
program can be written in a high level language like Ada 
(haven't we all seen one!). 

The fact that structured programming is more of a matter of approach
can be seen by the way lots of people use languages like C++. They write 
vanilla C programs in C++, without sitting back and planning 
the program out first, and try to use the C++ facilities 
in a more "object oriented" fashion.
What I am trying to say, is that again, the approach to using an object 
oriented language is very different from that used for a language 
without the OOP features.( This does not mean that you cannot do OOP in
C, only C++ is more suitable for it.)

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The opinions expressed above are, mine and mine alone, mined. 

GP Saxena
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