On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:14 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> I once talked about it with people in the IRC, and someone mentioned he has
> written a 200-lines Python program and had to make only 20 changes to get it
> to compile and run. I told him they were 20 changes too many, because in
> Pseudocode, he would need 0.
I disagree with the numbers.
Pseudocode is good as a design tool. When you design an algorithm, you
want to tweak it until the design is right (as tested by simulations
inside your head).
This involves changes in the algorithm.
Even if it is written in pseudocode.
In fact, you choose the most optimal pseudocode for this stage of your
project - the pseudocode which best matches your problem domain, and
which allows you the most parsimonious ways to express the algorithm and
tweak it.
I am CC'ing this on Hackers-IL mailing list and I suggest that this
interesting discussion be shifted to Hackers-IL.
--- Omer
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