Author: Tony Werten
Date: 04:06:55 08/10/02
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On August 10, 2002 at 05:59:08, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >On August 10, 2002 at 03:43:49, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On August 10, 2002 at 03:06:36, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>On August 09, 2002 at 18:52:56, GuyHaworth wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Yes, a sad loss. A remarkable man. >>>> >>>>"GOTO considered harmful" and "Co-operating Sequential Processes" had a major >>>>effect on my thinking in the '70s. >>> >>>Together with Jackson he was one of the pioneers of "Modular Programming", in >>>the late 70's I had to learn his stuff. The one thing he could not convince me >>>is the use of the "goto" instruction, I still use it. The use of the "goto" >>>instruction is considered as the no.1 main sin in programming. >> >>Not anymore I think. Break and continue are considered correct instructions >>while basicly they are a goto. >> > >What is the postcondition of a "break"? ;) repeat some code; // break or continue more code; until (x>5); // continue will make you jump here, so skip more code is skipped // break will make you jump here Tony > >Alessandro
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