transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2935

Looks good. More people should read it. I just have one question, though: what do you have against continue and break? To me they are perfectly valid and useful, usually in cases like this:

while (somecondition) { if (easycase) { dosomethingsimple (); continue; } dosomethingcomplicated (); if (somethingbadhappened) { complain (); break; } if (itisnotmorecomplicated) continue; * Do more complicated stuff... * }

I've suggested to many English-speaking programmers that their comments be in a common language. All too often I see a comment line where the programmer tried to be overly verbose, then performed horrible truncations to make the comment fit on the line - when writing it in concise English would have done the job much more readably. In other cases, I think there's a myth that plain English doesn't look sufficiently "computerish", and is therefore unacceptable.

I haven't seen much code written by foreign programmers, but if it's anything like their postings on Usenet, their comments are probably more readable than those written by programmers whose native language is English.

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