twovests wrote on December 20, 2019 at 12:04 PM

Reply to comment by Moonside in pseudocode is imperative propaganda: cmv by no_defun_allowed

i guess in a functional language pseudocode would replace larger swathes than just adding something_else_magical but tbh i only ever used pseudocode imperatively :c

Moonside wrote on December 21, 2019 at 7:36 AM

The curious thing is that I've never really seen functional language pseudo being written. But then again I'm not a serious programmer or a software engineer.

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