Re: "continue/next" for "loop"

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>]

In <af783afe.0311060148.19e29271@posting.google.com> martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie) writes:

>From my very dusty memory, this sounds a lot like the principles used in
>Jackson Structured Programming (JSP), esp, the bit about everything
>being nested boxes... the controlled jumps sound a bit like the 'backtracking'
>technique and the abhorance of 'programmer invented flags' would warm
>the heart of my old JSP/COBOL lecturer no end :-)

I think "nested boxes" is the essential feature of _any_ structured
programming, including Jackson's. Yes, it is a long time time I knew what
Jackson's system was all about, but I do recall that it seemed to be a bit
overhyped at the time.

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