I leared the hard way in college (I think using Modula II or Ada) that a
priming read is gospel. When the teacher showed up with a stack of green
bar paper 5 inches high, slammed it on the table, pointed at me and said
"we need to talk after class".... I knew I effed up.

Never again. Shame works. haha.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Finding it doesn't make it good coding. I've seen worse. I've done
worse. :)

What mystifies me the most is how often some people like to take
aspects of the various approaches and arrange them into something
worse than any of them, such as

setll
if %equal
dow not %eof
reade
if %eof
leave
endif
stuff
enddo
endif

Yeah. Way to go, avoiding the cardinal sin of an "infinite loop".

John Y.
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