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When we look at this area it is useful to gain some historical perspective concerning the control structures that are available in a programming language.
At the time of the development of Fortran in the 1950s there was little theoretical work around and the control structures provided were very primitive and closely related to the capability of the hardware.
Summarizing: as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.
Edsger W. Dijkstra, Structured Programming
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Chivers, I., Sleightholme, J. (2012). Control Structures. In: Introduction to Programming with Fortran. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-233-9_13
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