Nice! Sometimes I wish we had a basic "algorithms" language that was used absolutely everywhere, and every book everywhere teaching another language would assu

Nice! Sometimes I wish we had a basic "algorithms" language that was used absolutely everywhere, and every book everywhere teaching another language would assume the person knows how to program using the basic language and then teach the new language as a diff of the basic one. Why do I say this? Because as someone who is versed in quite a few languages, I find the signal to ratio of these texts to be uncomfortable. For example, I know C really well, so the explanations of integer sizes are irrelevant, I know what is shadowing, etc., but the explanation of the return statements is really useful, the variable declaration is interesting, so I keep having paragraphs I can skip followed by paragraphs I have to read, followed by paragraphs I can skip, etc. I get tired quickly when reading like this.