Re: Today's basic programming language? [WAS: Large Gregorian Collider will blow up Earth in 2100]

On 2008-09-19, GSV Three Minds in a Can <GSV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bitstring <slrngd6j9k.ba6.wnoise@xxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person
Aaron Denney <wnoise@xxxxxxx> said
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On 2008-09-18, Wayne Throop <throopw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
::: Simple flowcharts are our friends.

:: Flowcharts are not solving a problem - they're DOCUMENTING a solution
:: to a problem. Programming is an art and not a science precisely
:: because figuring out how to express a problem rigorously is so
:: difficult.

: It beats leaving it as a reading-problem, especially if there's nested
: loops involved, wot there usually is . . . .

Eh. Never liked flowcharts much. I have to mentally translate them
back into loops with invariants and case enumerations and such to make
sense of them. I 'druther have psuedocode, by far.

Ditto^N.

Flow charts always were mostly for explaining things to pointy-headed
management types who don't appreciate the parallel processing
implications of the 'come from' statement. 8>.

I really don't want to think about computed come from, do I?

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Aaron Denney
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