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Anyone have notations specifically intended for pseudocode sketching on paper?

(eg the "offside rule" was originally conceived to be easy to interpret even for handwriting)



Ken Iverson.

It’s called APL, it is incredibly effective, it won many awards, there’s a book about it called “Notation as a tool of thought” which is a bit dated but still highly recommended.

But it is not really compatible with modern programming languages and styles.


I use set theory/formal logic notation sometimes.




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