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In article <5...@enea.se> som...@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

| I have actually seen such a program. It was not Cobol, but Fortran
| and it was not a repetition of 500 but of six. I don't remember
| the details, but basically the guy could have used a DO loop (or
| was it an array?) Anyway he repeated the same piece of code for
| six possibilities of the dice.
| 
| Now, he may well be forgiven. He was a young student in civil
| engineering and programming was not his main subject. This program
| was just another exam to get his degree. I was judging it and without
| a doubt I disapproved it. Apparently there was a basic concept he
| hadn't learnt about. But the sad story was when I went through the
| exams with a teacher at the CS department. (I was only an assisting
| student teacher.) And he said: "It clumsy, but it is correct; it
| would work. We can't disapprove him." He had the final say, but I 
| would even less approve that program today.

  What!!? Here he optimizes the program by unrolling a short loop and
you would disapprove it?
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