Observations about Structured Programming

Structured programming is narrowly oriented towards solving one particular problem
- It would be nice if our programming efforts could be oriented more broadly
Structured programming is carried out by gradual decomposition of the functionality
- The structures formed by functionality/actions/control are not the most stable parts of a program
- Focusing on data structures instead of control structure is an alternative approach
Real systems have no single top - Real systems may have multiple tops [Bertrand Meyer]
- It may therefore be natural to consider alternatives to the top-down approach