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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com |
| Date | 2020-02-29 01:01 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <8736aurytc.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes: > On 28/02/2020 17:50, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes: >> <cut> >>> Fortran loops are a good example. They are necessarily limited in what >>> they do, and that makes it very easy to reason about compared with the >>> myriad variations that can be introduced with C's for as I showed in >>> my other post. >> >> You've forgotten how hard to reason about they were! Fortran's DO was a >> mess. >> > > What have I forgotten? As I recall they looked like this: > > DO 100 I=1,10 > .... > 100 CONTINUE > > What can go wrong with that? (Other than the label being located > before the loop, or in the middle of another, but that was a general > issue with spaghetti code.) And loads of other things. If you want to be reminded of how messy the definition is, read up on what a do loop with extended range is. If I recall correctly, it's only about three dense paragraphs. -- Ben.
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After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-02-25 06:55 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2020-02-27 20:02 +0300
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-27 11:41 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-02-27 14:48 -0700
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-27 23:17 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-27 16:40 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-28 01:08 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 01:37 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-28 06:21 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-28 16:15 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-28 10:37 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-28 19:22 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-01 14:54 +0100
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-01 15:36 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-01 17:08 +0100
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-02-27 21:57 -0500
Really??? (Was: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2020-02-28 13:06 +0000
Re: Really??? (Was: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com) chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 05:47 -0800
Re: Really??? (Was: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-28 05:59 -0800
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-28 14:04 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-28 17:50 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2020-02-28 20:59 +0300
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-28 22:37 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-29 00:17 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-29 01:01 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 19:22 -0700
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2020-02-27 14:52 -0500
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-27 20:42 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-27 22:59 +0100
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-27 20:48 +0000
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-03-27 20:06 -0700
Re: After doing a lot of the problems on codingbat.com chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-02-27 15:28 -0800
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