Comment by Rochus
10 hours ago
Well, a lot of ideas (and I mean really a lot) from the sixties are still very relevant today, and indeed, there are also problems discovered in the sixties still waiting for a solution. We don't have to live in the past, but many "new" things aren't actually new, or are not better just because they are new.
Of course. Problems that existed in 60-s were very real. And structured programming was an improvement over messy gotos.
At the same time, software from 1960-s did not have to deal with a lot of error conditions. When all you have is infallible computation code, you tend to overlook handling cleanups and exceptions. It was also single-threaded, so there was no focus on locking/mutability.
And it turns out that dealing with both of these requires stepping away from pure structured programming with one nice happy path and a single return.