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loops or repetition

    A loop or repetition is the act of repeating an action or actions. A lot of the power of computers is being able to do repetitive choices over and over (sometimes millions or more times).

    This is one of the most important and powerful features of a computer — the ability to repeatedly do something over and over in really large numbers of repetitions.

    The Iterative DO LOOP is perfomed the exact number of times the programmer specified.

    The DO WHILE loop is perfomed zero or more times.

    The DO UNTIL loop is perfomed at least once.

    The key difference between the DO WHILE loop and the DO UNTIL loop is that the condition test comes at the beginning of the DO WHILE loop and the condition test comes at the end of the DO UNTIL loop.

    The DO WHILE loop might never be performed (if the test condition fails before the first attempt to loop).

    The DO UNTIL loop will always be performed at least once (because the condition test occurs after the first pass of the loop).

Ada

    “26 The loop statement provides the basic iterative mechanism in the language. A loop statement specifies that a sequence of statements is to be executed repeatedly as directed by an iteration scheme, or until an exit statement is encountered.” —:Ada-Europe’s Ada Reference Manual: Introduction: Language Summary See legal information

JOVIAL

    The following material is from the unclassified Computer Programming Manual for the JOVIAL (J73) Language, RADC-TR-81-143, Final Technical Report of June 1981.

    1.1.6 Flow of Control

    Loop-statements are used to repeat a sequence of statements.
    Here is an example of a loop-statement:

         FOR I:0 BY 1 WHILE I<1000;
            BEGIN
            VAL = INPUT;
            IF VAL < 0;
               EXIT;
            GIVEN(I) = VAL;
            END

    This statement uses the function INPUT to get an input value and
    assigns that value to VAL.  It assigns input values to GIVEN(1),
    GIVEN(2), GIVEN(3), and so on until either GIVEN(999) has been
    assigned or a negative input is encountered.  The examples uses
    an EXIT statement, which causes immediate exit from the enclosing
    loop.

    JOVIAL also has a form of loop that has just the WHILE clause; it
    can be used when the loop does not require an index.  Many
    calculations can be written as a while loop (which keeps going
    until some end condition is met) that encloses a case-statement
    (which selects the proper action for each time through the loop).

    Chapter 1 Introduction, page 11

other

   “18. A program without a loop and a structured variable isn’t worth writing.” —Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, ACM’s SIGPLAN Notices Volume 17, No. 9, September 1982, pages 7-13

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