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Are you talking about the pseudo code or the readable sentences? I hope my point comes across even if there's some linguistic nuance I'm missing.
by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Are you talking about the pseudo code or the readable sentences? I hope my point comes across even if there's some linguistic nuance I'm missing.
- RHSeeger 5y agoI'm talking about the readable sentences. The one you labelled as "an awkward way to speak" was unambiguous. The phrasing it seems you preferred was ambiguous. Personally, if I have to write the sentence down and the consumer of the sentence can't ask questions to clarify, I prefer the unambiguous wording. Ie, say exactly what you mean or you may not get what you want. > A wife asks her husband, a software engineer, “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!” A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, “Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?” He replied, “They had eggs.”