Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:09:57 -0600 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue References: <52f1c174-6af1-4fda-9ff8-a5e2cf507b5f@googlegroups.com> <8760ml5v5k.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <37e325fb-4aa8-4c84-9bcd-c1aa790fadc7@googlegroups.com> <87zijw3cfs.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <10e036fc-93fb-4d99-ba8f-1bbd16448b8c@googlegroups.com> <74cef61a-e3aa-4162-a9c7-22a89af0ce46@googlegroups.com> <58591225.764390@news.xs4all.nl> <428e33b4-36db-47f6-95a8-b86e9cba819a@googlegroups.com> <874m12aj9d.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 23:09:57 +0000 Message-ID: <87shoj7we2.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:If0tBeyFYmPCf/n0li/Bpwq31WM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-xcboV8g9jqMk7wcxKNhtwlTgOfZdFXxYzajxk2lwyN/64lCxetSmRL+VJUnBCMLfr/qdR2Gibmq9oRw!ZPx188Bsvbaip1g7HpRmKAUSRp87OtWAebpLFFG1gr0jCnMUWqQVCwXH0kB8/4EJzRKxCg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2561 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:101891 Tim Rentsch writes: > Gareth Owen writes: > >> Of course, Tim's depth of knowledge of experience does suggest that he's >> been programming since the time that punch cards were made of papyrus, >> so its not out of the question. > > Yes, it's a little known fact that the ancient Egyptians > developed the world's first computers around the time > of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. And they had a heck of > a time keeping those papyrus punch card readers working, > I can tell you. Exacerbated by having to use variable names like "picture of bird", "two reeds" and "sheaf of corn".