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From: ell@access.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: Which wastes more time? (Was Re: Software landmines (loops))
Date: 1998/09/04
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Loryn Jenkins <loryn@s054.aone.net.au> wrote:

>Elliott wrote:
>>
>>Loryn Jenkins <loryn@s054.aone.net.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>Jerry van Dijk wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry Quinn (gerryq@indigo.ie) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> rhuffman@bigfoot-.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Which wastes more time:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>1.  Coding loops with a single entry/exit point?
>>>>>>2.  Maintaining code with middle exit loops?
>>>>>>3.  Religious wars about how to code looops?

>>>>> Ah, but which is more fun?
 
>>>> Religious wars on the use of GOTO ?

>>>Actually, I have found this one of the most educational threads around.
>>>(Discounting those tiresome contributions from certain regularly
>>>combatorial participants.)

>> And amongst those especially the ones who are most effective in
>> exposing the purely fictitious basis of the arguments held by their
>> opposition.  Eh?  :-}

>Not at all, Elliot.

There's no accounting for observation, Lory.

End o' convo'.

Elliott