The Forgotten Art of Structured Programming - Kevlin Henney [C++ on Sea 2019]

Name: The Forgotten Art of Structured Programming - Kevlin Henney [C++ on Sea 2019]
Description: Kevlin Henney revisits structured programming, from Go To Statement Considered Harmful to block-structured code and object orientation. He argues it still matters for how we write code today.

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Kevlin Henney revisits structured programming, from Go To Statement Considered Harmful to block-structured code and object orientation. He argues it still matters for how we write code today.

HN commenters point to it in discussions of goto, early returns and cognitive load when reading code.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2021–2022

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Software architecture & design
C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages
Programming language design

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