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I remember a story about a professor: one student of his turned in a program neatly divided in functions for each bit of functionality, and ‘main’ consisted only of function calls. The professor was aghast at this waste of resources and sent the student back to rework the program.

This was related much later by the professor himself, and he was fully aware of how prescient the student was.

It still is a thing. Today we just call it "programming".

And how do you call it if is Not structured nowadays?

spaghetti.

Javascript.

Install the fortune package on Linux, and add "fortune" to your .bashrc file. You'll see them occasionally.