And last resist the temptation to use too many unconditional JUMPS. Our ancestors were good at this but we have evolved.

"Our ancestors were good"
In other words we are not as good, you call that to evolve.

K&R tried hard to "kill" the jump/goto because they believed that C had to written for syntax genius programming idiots, but if you look at the resulting assembler it is full of them.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a jump, I do, however have reservations about Cs goto, few compilers habdle those well.

Erik