The pseudocode found around Wikipedia is a very interesting programming language to study. Very much in the Niklaus Wirth style, but untyped, and comfortable both with mathematical symbols in Unicode and with English prose to express logic. Example:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form …
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They are just hard to understand and give someone who is trying to learn no idea what an implementation would look like. If instead you say “these are parameters to this basic block, they must be supplied by anyone entering the block,” suddenly there is no magic and everything
becomes obvious, because suddenly it looks like the stuff that programmers already do all the time, because that is what it is. (It also makes clear perf stuff, like ahh, these are going to be copies unless they can be eluded somehow).
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copy elusion is a fun idea
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Phone autocorrect for the win.
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@paulg seems relevant: http://paulgraham.com/simply.htmlThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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