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From: ell@access.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/10/05
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ell@access.digex.net (Ell) wrote:

>"Robert C. Martin" <rmartin@oma.com> wrote:
>
>>... And I, I am entitled to conclude that mid-exit loops are not part
>>of SP because Dijkstra unambiguously excluded them.

>Where?

And even if he did it isn't the essence of SP.  Abstraction is.
Modelling is!   :-}  

And I can show you where Dijkstra said that himself.  ("Art of
Literate Programming",  D. Knuth,  CLSC, pg 72)

Elliott
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