pseudocode is imperative propaganda: cmv

Submitted by no_defun_allowed at July 25, 2019, 12:00 AM in church_of_alonzo_church

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Moonside wrote at December 21, 2019, 7:36 AM

The curious thing is that I've never really seen functional language pseudo being written. But then again I'm not a serious programmer or a software engineer.

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