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Re:A Paper Algorithm Notation by seanmcdirmid on Saturday December 31, 2016 @04:10PM (#13293168)
Everyone understands it implies that everyone understands it, regardless of background or knowledge or whether they know programming or not.
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Re:A Paper Algorithm Notation by EpicEng on Saturday December 31, 2016 @08:42PM (#13294248)
Only to the extremely pedantic.
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Re:A Paper Algorithm Notation by seanmcdirmid on Saturday December 31, 2016 @08:44PM (#13294252)
Not pedant at all, I'm sure parent meant exactly what they said.
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Re:A Paper Algorithm Notation by EpicEng on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:54PM (#13294477)
No reasonable person here would regard "everyone" to include e.g. Sally in accounting. Psuedo code is obviously for people who write code.
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Re:A Paper Algorithm Notation by seanmcdirmid on Sunday January 01, 2017 @11:27AM (#13296181)
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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