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An alternative to current looping syntax

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 19, Issue 12

Pages 48 - 53

https://doi.org/10.1145/948363.948369

Published: 01 December 1984 Publication History

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There has been a lot of discussion lately about the drawbacks of various language structures [2] and the lack of the same structures in older programming languages (Fortran) [1]. In this brief paper I propose a modest alteration to programming languages and present a simple pre-processor written in Fortran that implements the alteration.

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Baldwin, Roger, "The Backwards Directed GO TO in Fortran", ACM SIGLAN Notices, Volume 19, Number 8, August 1984.

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Michael Covington, "A Pedagogical Disadvantage of REPEAT and WHILE", ACM SIGPLAN Notices, <same issue as above>

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 19, Issue 12

December 1984

68 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

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DOI:10.1145/948363

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