Abstract
All modern computer languages provide a number of control structures that allow you to execute a piece of code once or repeatedly as long as some condition is true. In BASIC we have IF..THEN (and sometimes IF.. THEN.. ELSE) and FOR.. NEXT.
“Then you keep moving around, I suppose?” said Alice.
“Exactly so,” said the Hatter: “as the things get used up”
“But what happens when you come to the beginning again?” Alice ventured to ask.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Jones, R., Stewart, I. (1987). Loops and Control Constructs. In: The Art of C Programming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8685-8_3
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