if you put it in a moooooonad no one will notice

An observation by John McCarthy

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.

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

Tbh in that specific case I'd just use mathematics:

f(n+1) = f(n) * g(f(n))

which is almost an implementation in some functional languages. (Nb. it's very nice to be able to use n+1 or 2n style notation in parameters, it can clean up expressions a lot.) Obviously the base case ought to be treated somehow, but that's besides the point.

I would say that ad hoc usage of pseudocode seems innocuous to me - sometimes you have improvise and there's not an common agreed upon system to draw on. Perfect is the enemy of the good. But I think its virtues as a tool for planning and documentation aren't great. If you go forth and plan or prototype your project in pseudo before implementation, why?

I'm speculating here as I don't have access to any empirical research treating this topic.

I like using pseudocode when there's a lot of magic that needs to happen and you want people to know what that will look like.

magic_fib (n) = magic_fib(n - 1) * something_else_magical(magic_fib(n - 1))

ha thank you for this meditation professor church

the M in M-x stands for Miku

I've never seen a system of pseudocode that I've liked. Basically it's too concrete for planning and too abstract to be of much help when writing code. It seems to come from an era when procedural coding was all that was agreed to matter.

u are right and u should say it!!!!

this one from new game isn't tho

went to the repository and was disappointed that most were photoshopped

yes

it's about third-third-third programmer jokes, weirdness, and misuse of common meme templates to me, so i suppose there's something for everyone to enjoy

i dont know what the posts in this subreddit mean but i like to click on them and be like ... :)

thankyou very much

just subbed

R is just fucking weird.

thankies

this is a good meme

i do too but the syntax feels weird to me in a language that is more like lisp

I like prolog though ):

yeah it's basically erlang without the freaky prolog style syntax

looks like ruby to me tbh, props for the macros tho

is elixir a lisp