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Bob La Quey wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2008 9:25 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:27:13PM -0800, SJS wrote:
>>> What's amusing is that when I do read python or IAS psuedocode in a book
>>> (or printed out), I annotate it with vertical lines from the initial
>>> keyword to the closing block. That is,
>>>
>>>   while expression1                      while expression1
>>>      if expression2                      |  if expression2
>>>         do something           ===>      |  |  do something
>>>      else                                |  else
>>>         do something else                |  |__do something else
>>>                                          |_____
>> I find the code on the right significantly more difficult to read.  The
>> lines are just noise that make the code harder to find.
> 
> Agreed. Noise is all that was added. I do hope such abortions
> are not being taught.

Sadly, I remember being taught to do such [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$# when I was first
instructed to code (and definitely not an IAS language). It made me ill
back then too.

- --Chris
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