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to: Pascal Schmidt
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2004-05-01 17:57:48
subject: Merits

PS> Hi Jasen! :-)

Hi Pascal,

PS>  JB> with a for loop you can see on the for line whaere it starts,  how
PS> it
PS>  JB> proceeds from one counter value to the next, and where it ends.
PS> Unless someone is playing funky tricks with the counter variable inside
PS> the loop. I used to do that in Turbo Pascal. There is no equivalent of
PS> "break" in Pascal, so what I did when I needed to
terminate a loop somewhere
PS> in the middle was to set the counter variable to the ending value. ;)

Which shows Pascal is a teaching language. :)) 

C says "I'll do that, even if I think it's bad, but it's a routined
programmer behind the keyboard, so I trust him more than my self".

Pascal says "Oh I need to teach him more".

Bo


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