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>It's a matter of opinion as to which is more readable.

True.

>Over nesting also makes things very hard to read and thus
>difficult to maintain, defeating HLL too. I've seen this kinda junk ...

>the continue version of this code is clearer and makes more
>sense than your version, simple as that.

Well, that's your opinion. Mine is different, simple as that.

Take a look at to following to code-fragments.



while (....)
{
if (....)
{
....
}

Saw these examples, these doesn't show at all why to use continue.



Can be replaced by



while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL)
{

In my opinion, it is usually better to avoid such statements like continue or goto. Avoiding these statements leads in general to more structured code and forces you to design a structured algorithm...