Re: "continue/next" for "loop"

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In <af783afe.0311060148.19e29271@posting.google.com>
martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie) writes:
>
> 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.

I still bear some of his teaching in mind... like basing programs on the
structure
of the data it manipulates - for file processing programs at any rate.

The best hype I heard was that "Abbey National" (a UK bank) had found
that since moving to JSP, that testing was no longer cost effective!

And to be fair, I think it did 'raise the game' for 'below par' programmers.

-- Martin