On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 4:32:26 AM UTC+12, Rustom Mody wrote:
> I wonder whether "red herring" is your red herring
I wasn’t the one trying to draw a completely spurious equivalence between
structured programming and gotos.
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On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 7:23:27 AM UTC+5:30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 11:13:14 PM UTC+12, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram
> >
> > | Nassi–Shneiderman diagrams are (almost) isomorphic with
> >
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 11:13:14 PM UTC+12, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram
>
> | Nassi–Shneiderman diagrams are (almost) isomorphic with
> | flowcharts. Everything you can represent with a Nassi–Shneiderman
> | diagram you can
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 11:27:15 AM UTC+5:30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 5:48:48 PM UTC+12, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 8:25:10 AM UTC+5:30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro
> > wrote:
> > So here is the formal definition I remember from decades ag
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 5:48:48 PM UTC+12, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 8:25:10 AM UTC+5:30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> So here is the formal definition I remember from decades ago:
>
> A structured flow-graph is one that has a single point of entry and exit.
> And is
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 8:25:10 AM UTC+5:30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 1:51:54 AM UTC+12, Random832 wrote:
> > ... and in particular it does not establish that break is in any way
> > less structured than any other constructs that have keywords.
>
> Interesti
