Software Development, Design, and Coding: With Patterns, Debugging, Unit Testing, and Refactoring

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9. Structured Design

John F. Dooley¹   and Vera A. Kazakova²

(1)

Galesburg, IL, USA

(2)

Columbia, MD, USA

 

Invest in the abstraction, not the implementation. Abstractions can survive the barrage of changes from different implementations and new technologies.

—Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas¹

Structured Programming

Structured design has its genesis in Edsger Dijkstra’s famous 1968 letter to the Communications of the ACM, “Go To Statement Considered Harmful.” Dijkstra’s paper concludes with

The go to statement as it stands is just too primitive; it is too much an ...