Human: How do you write a program to determine the highest marks in
pseudocode?
Assistant [alpha]:
Here is one way you could write this in pseudocode:
Highest = 0
For each mark in the list of marks:
If mark > Highest:
Highest = mark
Output Highest
This loops through all the marks, keeps track of the highest mark seen
so far, and ultimately outputs the highest mark in the list.
Human:
with www.jsoftware.com we'd insert greater than, >./ MARKS
Assistant [alpha]:
That is a very concise way to express this algorithm in J! J is a very
powerful and dense language, and that single line of code does exactly
what the pseudocode above expresses.
Human:
j is executable pseudocode.
Assistant [alpha]:
I can see how J could be considered executable pseudocode. It is very
high-level and abstract, and allows you to express a lot of logic in a
small amount of very readable code.
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