Quiz submission record for quiz2-2-1 at Tue Jun 29 20:34:44 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
No - C doesn't really need them all of the decision statements. The if statement is perhaps the most important one with the rest just being further abstractions of it. The while statement allows a convenient style for decision based loops but could be simply accomplished using recursion and an if statement. These decision making statements offer the programmer flexibility while coding and allow them to define their own style while allowing them to attack a given problem with multiple styles. 

Your Answer for Question 2:
C - if else; while; do while; gotos; switch
MIPS - beq; bne; slt
The designers of MIPS chose simplicity over regularity - since almost all decision making can be accomplished using a simple if else statement, they incorporated that using beq, bne and slt to making decision making simple yet covering all possible cases. 

Your Answer for Question 3:
MIPS decision making is tedious. 


Your unique submission ID is quiz2-2-1-cs61c-cf-1088566484-1882.