> What I am really concerned about is the composition of large programs, the text of which may be, say, of the same size as the whole text of this booklet.
At 88 pages, I think that falls on the smaller end of what most programmers deal with these days. Sounds like the ideas of structured programming and later evolutions have been a huge success!
wglb 9 days ago [-]
Agreed.
What is interesting is that this is of the era when he mentioned that Americans tended to talk about how many lines of code their compiler had. He claimed that Europeans tended to emphasize how few lines their compiler had.
It definitely is better searchable.
At 88 pages, I think that falls on the smaller end of what most programmers deal with these days. Sounds like the ideas of structured programming and later evolutions have been a huge success!
What is interesting is that this is of the era when he mentioned that Americans tended to talk about how many lines of code their compiler had. He claimed that Europeans tended to emphasize how few lines their compiler had.
(Full Disclosure: I read the article when I came out. I was working with Fortran at the time and could not have agreed more.)