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Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
From: Richard Miller <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:54:56 +0100
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> for(what i want){
> 	do(what is right);
> }until(all is done);
> 
> Then
> 	goto start;
> and begin again.
> 
> Now *that's* a good language.
> 
> -rob

Once again Rob's satire underestimates the horror of the real world.
See, for example, the COBOL "PERFORM" statement:

 http://www.helsinki.fi/atk/unix/dec_manuals/cobv27ua/6296-88.gif

-- Richard