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Subject: Re: What is Pseudo-Code???

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 17:55:25 11/17/02

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On November 17, 2002 at 19:58:14, Bob Durrett wrote:

>
>In the Rookie 2 chess engine thesis I'm looking at, the author keeps giving
>pseudo-code to illustrate the points in the narrative.
>
>Why didn't he just give the code?  Too much?  OK. That much is obvious.
>
>But how to decide whether or not code is "pseudo"?
>
>Yes, I know that's a dumb question.  But I'm at the beginning.
>
>Bob D.

There are many implementation points in every actual code, that have nothing to
do with the big picture, which is usually the algorithms. Presenting
Pseudo-codes instead of the whole code, has the benefit of demonstrating the
important structural issues, without the often irrelevant parts.



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