Because that’s the original problem statement for Algol! As in, we’ve been publishing all that pseudocode for quite a bit and it seems like conventions have eme

Because that’s the original problem statement for Algol! As in, we’ve been publishing all that pseudocode for quite a bit and it seems like conventions have emerged, let’s formalize them and program in that. ... People were markedly more naïve back then, but then that’s sometimes what it takes.