Re: "continue/next" for "loop"

[martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie)]

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<HnvK4B.6Mu@clerew.man.ac.uk>...

> 1. You can regard a well-structured program as a set of nested boxes. Or of
> nested levels of indentation as in Lutz's example above.
[snip]
> And yes, even Spaghetti programs can be made to look structured by
> inventing a sufficiently large number of boolean variables. That too has
> been known for the last 25 years, so do not bother repeating it. It DOES
> NOT make a program any clearer, as opposed to well-structured jumps as
> above. It just assuages the consciences of those who believe the myth that
> ALL GOTOs are harmful, which nobody (no, not even the late lamented
> Edsger) ever said they were.

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 :-)

Are these philosophies related?