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Instead of writing out every step of such operations in every part of the program where it was needed (possibly using a [[macro]]), programmers saved memory by writing out every step of such operations exactly once and placing it in a [[subroutine]].

This process ([[refactor]]ing) is still commonly used today by all programmers and many wiki editors, although today wethey do it for different reasons.

The top-level application usually consists of nothing but subroutine calls. And many of those subroutines, in turn, also consist of nothing but subroutine calls.