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I apparently undid the split, as the former "Modular programming" article was deleted, and I moved this article back to that name. The difference between the two was not sufficiently explained in either article, and if one is merely an "abstraction" of the other, then there's no reason I can see that they would need to be separated. While your interest may be in the "history" of this programming paradigm, there is again no reason why you can't simply create a "history" section in this article. If the two concepts are truly distinct, [[WP:N]] applies, and whatever movement that you are referring to is apparently not worthy of mention other than in primary sources. Besides that, article titles should refer to the most commonly recognized subject -- the idea that an obscure theory from the 60s should take precedence over a modern and widely used practice is another problem with the way the split was handled. [[User:Ham Pastrami|Ham Pastrami]] ([[User talk:Ham Pastrami|talk]]) 22:25, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
::Hi Ham Pastrami... sorry I haven't been around lately to respond to your proposal. Well, if a researcher wishes to understand the roots of a technology, I submit that he or she really need to keep this historical perspective. It is especially important to recognize that up though the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were many practitioers using modular programming techniques that came from the original papers from Constantine, et al. The divergence from the Modular Programming techniques to the Structured Programming technquiues was a technological event, and the principles and condiditons that led to that divergence is worth perserving. Most importantly, the Modular Programming was related to the subject of Modular Programming as we use it today only in the sense that it was an influance.
::I will make an attempt to contact Constantine again and see if he will release the paper from the "National Symposium on Modular Programming of 1968". I believe this will establish a major event of the software development timeline, and give additional weight to my assertion that Modular Programming warrants a historical reference in the evolution of software developoment technology. My biggest concern is, if we don't record these topics here in Wiki, they will be much more difficult, if not impossible to reconstruct should some researcher wish to discover these facts that may die when the authors die. [[Larry Constantine]] is a major figure who gave us many of ther terms we now use today. Hope this Helps, [[User:YORD-the-unknown|YORD-the-unknown]] ([[User talk:YORD-the-unknown|talk]]) 20:58, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
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