stepwise refinement ==>
top-down design
<programming> (Or "stepwise refinement"). The software design technique
which aims to describe functionality at a very high level, then partition it
repeatedly into more detailed levels one level at a time until the detail is
sufficient to allow coding. This approach to software design probably originated
at IBM, and grew out of structured programming practices.
(1996-08-04)
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