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The control structures of the previous chapter — compound, loop, conditional and their variants — give us basic mechanisms for scheduling instructions. If they were our only tools, we would always have to express the flow of control in full detail. For complex programs, the depth of nesting would soon defy understanding.
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Meyer, B. (2013). Routines, functional abstraction and information hiding. In: Touch of Class. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92145-5_8
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