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top-down

[top-doun]
–adjective Computers.
See under structured programming.

Origin:
1960–65

structured programming

–noun Computers.
the design and coding of programs by a methodology (top-down) that successively breaks problems into smaller, nested subunits.

Origin:
1970–75
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