do ... while loop

[Gordon McMillan]

> Pada 14 Oct 1999 23:10:17 GMT, Martijn Faassen bilang:
> | Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote:
> | > If Python were Puritan, you wouldn't have for loops. Any loop
> | > can be coded as | [snip] | > The fact that "for" exists and
> "while" takes a condition (and | > both take an "else" clause) is
> symptomatic of the | > insidious Dutch tendency to
> permissiveness. | | Which is why those Mayflower people left the
> Netherlands for North | America way back when. Too permissive. :)
> | | it's-okay-to-call-us-insidious-ly yours,
> 
> Eh?  Weren't the people on the Mayflower from Britain?
> 
> trying-to-remember-the-story-of-thanksgiving-from-his-youth-ly
> yrs, Cliff

Well, Martijn undoubtedly meant the Mayflour, which wasn't a 
ship but a windmill that got picked up in particularly stiff 
breeze and landed in Plymouth. Michigan, that is. The miller 
and his wife, being Dutch, had no idea what had happened. 
They tried raising tulips, but that didn't work, so they started 
building dikes. Later, of course, they merged with Buick. But 
you can still hear the sound of wooden shoes when attempting 
to accelerate one up a steep hill.

anything-else-you-wanted-to-know?-ly y'rs

- Gordon