flowcharts and teaching programming/was Re: Barden programming books

Don't forget that the DO loop in Fortan has not the same effect as an iteration as the Do condition is performed at the end.? The DO component is therefore performed at least once.? An iteration must be able to be performed zero times.?? This was why in JSP it wasn't used. As to Cobol Alter - Probably it was one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time as a one time switch.? I only came across a couple in programs and they were done by inexperienced programmers and I spent over 20 years programming in Cobol. --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> Subject: Re: flowcharts and teaching programming/was Re: Barden programming books To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 12:22 PM On 27 Feb 2010 at 9:05, Russ Bartlett wrote: Ah, yes, give enough ALTER statements and I can do anything.... ;) People can criticize FORTRAN coding all they want, but the opportunity for abuse in COBOL was far greater. --Chuck