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Nick Keighley  
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 More options Nov 6 2010, 5:30 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer, comp.lang.c
From: Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:30:39 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Nov 6 2010 5:30 am
Subject: Re: Stylistic note on loops
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On Nov 2, 5:42 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 01.11.2010 22:30, BartC wrote:

> > "Tom Anderson" <t...@urchin.earth.li> wrote in message
> >news:alpine.DEB.1.10.1011012102020.4900@urchin.earth.li...

> >> Python has been called 'executable pseudocode'. If written cleanly, it is
> >> highly readable, even to those who don't know it.

> > I think Python is the last language I'd use for pseudocode. No-one
> > writing Python can resist using all it's features which renders it
> > incomprehensible to anyone else. And for porting code, it is also
> > necessary to duplicate it's myriad libraries.

> > Probably Lua is better for that role, being far simpler with less
> > built-in stuff.

> Of course I have to throw in Ruby here.  Very clean syntax, clean OO
> implementation and no significant whitespace.  I often find that Ruby
> code looks like pseudo code - but it actually can be executed.  :-)

when faced with the choice of learning python or ruby I chose python.
ruby looked a bit strange. Having skimmed the tutorial you mention it
looks a lot less strange! But if you write pseudo code like this then
heaven help your collegues!

ARGF.each { |line|  print line  if line =~ /Ruby/ }


 
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