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Every serious program must repeat some of its operations many times over. For example, a program that handles a file of employees and produces a set of payslips will apply the same set of rules to each employee record in turn.
So Round about And round about And round about and round about And round about And round about I go’ A. A. Milne, Now We Are Six
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Colin, A.J.T. (1978). Loops and Program Efficiency. In: Programming and Problem-Solving in Algol 68. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03561-8_5
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