Who Invented Structured Programming?

Edsger Dijkstra

Edsger Dijkstra
During his forty-plus years as a computing scientist, which included positions in both academia and industry, Dijkstra made numerous seminal contributions to many areas of computing science, including compiler construction, operating systems, concurrent computing (concurrent programming), distributed computing, ...
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and the Invention of Structured Programming.

Who developed structured programming?

The concept of structured programming was first introduced by Bohm and Jacopini in a paper published by the ACM in 1966 [2].

When was structured programming invented?

The structured programming concept was formalized in 1966 by Corrado Böhm and Giuseppe Jacopini, who demonstrated theoretical computer program design through loops, sequences and decisions.

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