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Re:When Paper Beats the Screen by 082349872349872 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:28AM (#34026900)
Anyone have notations specifically intended for pseudocode sketching on paper?

(eg the "offside rule" was originally conceived to be easy to interpret even for handwriting)

Re:When Paper Beats the Screen by beagle3 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:31AM (#34026922)
Ken Iverson.

It’s called APL, it is incredibly effective, it won many awards, there’s a book about it called “Notation as a tool of thought” which is a bit dated but still highly recommended.

But it is not really compatible with modern programming languages and styles.

Re:When Paper Beats the Screen by maxbond on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:15PM (#34034426)
I use set theory/formal logic notation sometimes.