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Unless instructed otherwise, a computer will process the operations in a program in order, one after another. However most programming tasks have repetitive elements, and most involve alternatives. Repetitive elements are managed by instructing the computer to return to a earlier point in the program. Alternatives are managed by directing the computer to go to one of several places in a program. In either case the programmer is controlling the flow of execution of the program.
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Christian, K. (1986). Control Flow in Modula-2. In: A Guide to Modula-2. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4892-7_3
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