Re: LOOP

FOR/NEXT DO/LOOP wars have raged ever since Moore introduced the former.
Here's a [cold] blast from the past...

  Minutes of the FIGGY BAR RT Conference.

  Date: 11/16/89   Time: 22:36EST

  <[Wil] W.BADEN1> DO/LOOP will never be as efficient as FOR/NEXT.
  <[Wil] W.BADEN1> FOR/NEXT will never be as effective as DO/LOOP.

  Date: 06/28/90   Time: 22:32EDT

  <[Wil] W.BADEN1> Chuck walked out of ANSI becuz it wudn't make
     FOR...NEXT required.
  <[Wil] W.BADEN1> That was 1988.  And the operative word is "required."