Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
by satvikpendem on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:32PM
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> I have not once written pseudocode that looks like Python, though apparently this is odd.
Well, looks like you're an outlier. Most people I know who write pseudocode don't use filters, folds, maps or APL like constructs either, even though I totally would when writing the actual code. They write it in a Python-like format with for-loops and if-statements.
I tend towards pseudo-SML for scribbling things; once got in trouble for using "language specific constructs" like map() for university work. They weren't a fan of APL for adjacency matrix munging either, though that's how I went through that part of the course. In either case pseudocode is just ignoring the unpretty parts of any language, and it can hardly be said any language is more like pseudocode.