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seanmcdirmid
on Dec 31, 2016
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A Paper Algorithm Notation
Everyone understands it implies that everyone understands it, regardless of background or knowledge or whether they know programming or not.
EpicEng
on Jan 1, 2017
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Only to the extremely pedantic.
seanmcdirmid
on Jan 1, 2017
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Not pedant at all, I'm sure parent meant exactly what they said.
EpicEng
on Jan 1, 2017
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No reasonable person here would regard "everyone" to include e.g. Sally in accounting. Psuedo code is obviously for people who write code.
seanmcdirmid
on Jan 1, 2017
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He did include sally in accounting below though. This is just the standard anti-new PL rant applied to pseudo code.
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