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From: Graham Perkins <gperkins@dmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/10/14
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Charles H. Sampson wrote:
...
>      The above structure, that I don't remember writing, is not a loop
> that fails to contain a procedure call in its body.  It's a loop whose
> body consists entirely of a single procedure call.

A very frequent construct in student programs!

Also we often find "main program" which consists of a single procedure
call, and many individual procedures which consist of nothing but
two or three parameter-less procedure calls.

We try to reform such people before they graduate!!  But many
slip through.

Now someone please tell me that *all* of these student are
kept away from real programming once they get jobs !

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