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Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue

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Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> writes:
> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
>> You are describing what *you* think of as structured programming, but
>> you're providing no basis for your claims about it.
>>
>> Tim cited a source, Dijkstra's "Notes on Structured Programming".
>> What's your source?  If you have none, perhaps you could call it
>> Malcolm-structured programming to avoid confusion.
>
> Remember when this used to be a C language newsgroup?
>
> Good times.
>
> Do Not Feed The .... Whatever the Hell Malcolm Is.

Point taken -- but in this case Malcolm is actually talking about C
programming, such as the common C idiom of conditions with side effects.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-12-29 13:27 -0800
  Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-29 13:41 -0800
    Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-29 13:57 -0800
      Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-12-29 22:55 +0000
        Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-29 15:34 -0800
    Re: while loop vs do while loop reading from the file issue Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-01-13 02:51 -0800

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