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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Basic on UNIX - ...
Message-ID: <727@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 02:55:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 15 02:55:51 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Feb-85 04:17:35 EST
References: <852@houxf.UUCP> <401@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob)
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In article <401@lsuc.UUCP> msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>stewart@houxf.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-435 x0705) writes:
>> While I normally disparage BASIC along with the rest of you, there are
>> a few places it's useful.  I tend to use it for jobs that take too much
>> arithmetic for shell, but are too small to bother writing in C 
>> 	FOR I = 1 TO 43
>> 		PRINT "FOO";I
>> 		NEXT I
>
>My preference would be:
>	awk </dev/null 'BEGIN {
>		for (i=1; i<=43; ++i) print "foo" i }'
>Mark Brader

Yikes! What's wrong with a nice, simple:

% bc
for (i = 0; i <= 43; i++) { "foo"; i}

Of course, for something complicated, I'll fire up a lisp, but that's anther
language.

	<mike