Why use modular programming techniques?
One of the great things about using modular design techniques, as opposed to just leaping in and writing code, is that they force you to think about the way your program should be structured and let you define a structure that will grow as your program evolves. Your program will be robust, easy to understand, easy to restructure as the scope of the program expands, and easy for others to work with too.
Woodworkers have a motto that equally applies to modular programming: there's a place for everything, and everything should be in its place. This is one of the hallmarks of high quality code, just as it's a hallmark of a well-organized woodworker's workshop.
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