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This book is about programming for data processing applications, and its purpose is to present a coherent method and procedure for designing systems, programs, and components. The main emphasis is on the structure: on the dissection of a problem into parts and the arrangement of those parts to form a solution.
First publish date: 1975
Authors: M. A. Jackson
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