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From: Patrick Logan <plogan@user2.teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/03
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In comp.object Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:

: Boy oh boy, Robert, we must come from different programming schools!

: The dangerous thing about the code fragment above is that the else
: part can get lost, especially if <process N> is long-ish.

If you think <process N> should be longish *in line* then I can state
it as a fact we come from different schools! Because my school taught
me *modular* programming as well as structured!

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Patrick Logan    (H) mailto:plogan@teleport.com 
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