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The Greatest Invention in Computer Science

25th June 2008, 09:17 pm

Think the utilization of the routine is valued based on the results measured in terms of high development rates, low maintenance costs, and improve process performance and logic flow.

“Aside from the invention of the computer, the routine is arguably the single greatest invention in computer science. It makes programs easier to read and understand. It makes them smaller (imagine how much larger your code would be if you had to repeat the code for every call to a routine instead of invoking the routine). And it makes them faster (imagine how hard it would be to make performance improvements in similar code used in a dozen places rather than making all the performance improvements in one routine). In large part, routines are what make modern programming possible.“

The routine reminds me of “Libraries” of code during xBase period.

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