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Coding Horror: The Greatest Invention in Computer Science

Routines are so fundamental to todays programming that they are essentially invisible. Thats the problem with routines: they only take a minute to learn, but a lifetime to master. If bad unstructured programming was possible, so is bad structured programming. You can write FORTRAN in any language.

[From: Coding Horror: The Greatest Invention in Computer Science]