The Top Down Paradigm

The Top Down programming paradigm inherently provides for useful features which can effectively bring down the cost of a software. These features are listed below :
 

•  Low Run-time costs - This paradigm does not provide for the more complex features like inheritance and polymorphism which results in reducing the run-time costs (because there is no late binding mechanism). It also improves code readability.
• Reuse - it is possible to reuse modules of software by using functions and procedures.
• Simplicity of language - there are fewer contructs which support things like abstraction which in-turn may make the language easier to use.
• Information Hiding - it does provide a mechanism for information hiding but it is not as effective as the OOP.
• Type-checking - it provides for robust type-checking.
• Software Design and Debugging - the Top Down paradigm provides these features with the help of functional and structural abstraction.
• Availability of libraries - functional abstraction provides for easy building and maintenance of libraries.

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