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As one grows in the art of computer programming, one constructs programs in a sequence of refinement steps. At each step the programmer breaks his task into a number of subtasks, thereby defining a number of partial programs. Although it is possible to camouflage this structure, this is undesirable. The concept of the procedure (or subroutine) allows the display of the subtasks as explicit subprograms.
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Jensen, K., Wirth, N. (1975). Procedures and Functions. In: PASCAL User Manual and Report. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37500-5_12
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