> [OOP] continues to puzzle programmers. If they are used to top-down programming or functional programming... What the heck is "top-down programming"? I've be

> [OOP] continues to puzzle programmers. If they are used to top-down programming or functional programming... What the heck is "top-down programming"? I've been writing code for close to 20 years and this is the first time I've encountered this term. Google reveals results like this one [0], that explain it as "essentially the breaking down of a system to gain insight into the sub-systems that make it up." So, in other words, literally any kind of programming? All programming paradigms are about building abstractions to avoid repeatedly dealing with low-level details. Is this really a thing that people talk about? [0] https://dzone.com/articles/how-does-top-down-programming-work https://dzone.com/articles/how-does-top-down-programming-wor...