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  1. Path: misery.millcomm.com!usenet
  2. From: danhicks@millcomm.com (Dan Hicks)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.apl
  4. Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
  5. Date: 5 Apr 1996 01:18:12 GMT
  6. Organization: Millennium Communications, Inc.
  7. Message-ID: <4k1sck$dj6@misery.millcomm.com>
  8. References: <314FB5F5.259B@simi.is> <3151B47F.70FD@connix.com> <4jo5t6$1ki@socrates.moe.edu.sg> <4jq2en$g2q@news.cais.com>
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  13. In <4jq2en$g2q@news.cais.com>, dlabell@paltech.com (David Labell) writes:
  14. >I write this from the standpoint of someone who has spent a career poking 
  15. >through stuff like the above -- writing it weird just so you can say you 
  16. >didn't do ____. 
  17.  
  18. All that time and you still haven't learned that "recur" is the verb 
  19. meaning "to perform recursion"?  "Recursing" is what you do when
  20. you once again read "clever" code.
  21.  
  22. Dan Hicks
  23. http://www.millcomm.com/~danhicks/
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