There were two amazing things about structured programming. The first was that it was hyped as being a breakthrough in our ability to build software, and it was accepted and used by almost all programmers in almost all practitioner organizations. The second is that no research was ever performed to demonstrate that the claimed and hyped value existed.
— Robert L. Glass and Tom DeMarco, The Psychology of Computer Programming
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