After machine code, assembly, and early high-level languages like FORTRAN and COBOL, programmers hit a major roadblock: spaghetti code. Programs were messy, full of jumps and gotos, and nearly impossible to debug.
In the 1970s, the solution arrived: structured programming.
✅ Sequence — instructions in order
✅ Selection — decisions with if/else
✅ Iteration — repeating tasks with loops
This new way of coding cleaned up programs, reduced errors, and made code easier to read, debug, and maintain.
Languages like Pascal were created to teach structured programming, while C brought it to real-world systems like operating systems and large-scale software.
Structured programming was a turning point in computer science. It not only solved spaghetti code, but also paved the way for the next revolution: object-oriented programming.
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