From: paul.biggar@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Andy Walker  wrote:   
   > B You have some   
   > items to process in order, so you write   
   >   
   > B  B  B  B FOR n := 1 TO nitems DO processitem (n) DONE   
   >   
   > What could be more natural?   
      
   I find this quite unnatural and inelegant, compared to some newer languages:   
      
   Python: for i in items: processitem(i)   
   Ruby: items.each { |i| processitem i }   
   Haskell: map processitem items   
      
   I don't see why there is a need for manually iterating through   
   anything. In the sample above, I had to quickly check whether there   
   was an off-by-one error.   
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