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1. XP and code page 850

2. ProForm 850 Elliptical Trainer with GameFit Technology

3. Codepage 850

4. break inside of case- statement inside of loop

Hi!

I have some code that looks similar to this:

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char array[10] = "abcdefghij";

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
	switch (array[i])
	{
		case 'a':
			/* code */
			break;
		case 'b':
			/* code */
			break;
		case 'c':
			/* code */
			break;

		default:
			/* code */
			break;
	}

}

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Is it possible to break out of the for loop from inside of one case- 
statement, or do I have to use a workaround?

5. Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over

6. What makes a good E. Robert Tisdale?

Efrat Regev wrote:

> "E. Robert Tisdale" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote in message
> news:ct1dej$a2g$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM ...
> 
>>What makes a good C/C++ programmer?
>>
>>Would you be surprised if I told you that
>>it has almost nothing to do with your knowledge of C or C++?
>>There isn't much difference in productivity, for example,
>>between a C/C++ programmers with a few weeks of experience
>>and a C/C++ programmer with years of experience.
>>

What kind of measurements have you undertook to justify such an absurdity?

You mean if I give a complex C program to sombedoy that
has just written an "hello world" program he will as
productive as an experienced programmer?

This is plain nonsense, not justified by anything else
but the sayings of Mr Tisdale.

7. Algorithms in C - Robert Sedgewick

8. Robert Wagner and 88

While reading a bit of sage advice by Robert Wagner to a neophyte I came
across the following:

> Change contrat-trouve to filler and change the test after the search to
'if
> contrat-true'. Using both data name and 88 is bad form. If your compiler
> permits, say
>    88 contrat-trouve                   value 1 false 0.
>
 >   when idx > bs
 >              set contrat-trouve to false

What is this "false 0" tacked onto the end of the "88" line?

All my life I have lived with code such as:

01    IS-IT-AN-ALIEN                  PIC X.
        88  IT-IS-AN-ALIEN            VALUE 1.
        88  IT-IS-AN-EARTHLING   VALUE 0.

Am I now learning that I could do this instaed?

01    IS-IT-AN-ALIEN                  PIC X.
        88  IT-IS-AN-ALIEN            VALUE 1  FALSE 0.



Jim Morcombe