From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 29/06/2025 6:04 am, sean@conman.org wrote:   
   > It was thus said that the Great dxf  once stated:   
   >>   <[Wil] W.BADEN1> Chuck walked out of ANSI becuz it wudn't make   
   >>      FOR...NEXT required.   
   >>   <[Wil] W.BADEN1> That was 1988.  And the operative word is "required."   
   >   
   >   What is the difference between FOR/NEXT and DO/LOOP?  Don't they do the   
   > same thing?   
      
   FOR NEXT was conceived as a bare-bones loop that down-counts to zero.   
   DO LOOP is more flexible.  While Moore was prepared to throw out the   
   latter's features for a simpler implementation in microcode, it's fair   
   to say most forthers were not.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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