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The ability of computers to perform repetitive calculations for as long as is required — perhaps thousands of times — is of great value in many programming situations. BASIC helps us to do these by supplying instructions which set up a loop of calculations for us. These are called FOR … NEXT … loop instructions and are in the form of a pair of instructions.
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© 1982 P. E. Gosling
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Gosling, P.E. (1982). FOR … NEXT … Loops. In: Beginning BASIC. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16837-8_8
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