1 Feb
2000
1 Feb
'00
1:07 p.m.
Maybe this would be a good time to write a dozen or so examples using alternative syntaxes (syntaxii?), and stick 'em in front of a bunch of people who haven't been part of this discussion, and ask 'em "what does this do"? (Footnote: check out David Scanlan's article in the Sept. 1989 issue of "IEEE Software". Turns out that flowcharts are actually more readable than pseudocode --- the research that claimed to show otherwise was biased by (among other things) comparing structured pseudocode with spaghetti flowcharts... One li'l bit of sloppy science, and the world turns its back on something useful...) Ellipsistically yours, Greg