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Re: GOTO controversy

#4419
From: David Labell
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 02:10
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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. 
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From: dlabell@paltech.com (David Labell)
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Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 02:10:49 GMT
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