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- From: dlabell@paltech.com (David Labell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.apl
- Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 02:10:49 GMT
- Organization: David Labell
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- >: What to you think? Loops without using loops?
-
- >: Looping with out a loop
- >
- >: no_loop(0,10);
- >
- >: no_loop(int start, int end)
- >: {
- >: if(start != end) {
- >: stuff
- >: no_loop(start+1,end);
- >: }
- >: }
- >
- >: I haven't tested this but you get the idea.
-
- Here's a guy who would rather recurse than loop. I don't mean to be rude, but
- this is typical of C programmers. Why not write it so it says what it does?
- Who benefits from your tricks?
-
- I write this from the standpoint of someone who has spent a career poking
- through stuff like the above -- writing it weird just so you can say you
- didn't do ____.
-
- I'm really tired of it.
- ........................................................................
-