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programming with nested sequence, selection and iteration instead of unrestricted jumps, so program text mirrors its execution.

In computer science, structured programming refers to programming with nested sequence, selection and iteration instead of unrestricted jumps, so program text mirrors its execution. This meaning comes from Dijkstra (1968) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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Dijkstra, E. W. (1968). Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful. Communications of the ACM, 11(3), 147-148. https://doi.org/10.1145/362929.362947

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