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On Algorithm Syntax: Or Why Writing in a Popular Language is a Disservice to Humanity
[edit]If one frequents wikipedia pages dedicated to algorithms one will find that the majority of them are written in a specific language, often with the justification that it makes the algorithm easier for other programmers to implement. This is an erroneous assessment for two reasons
- It assumes that the reader would understand the programming language selected and properties exploited in the code
- It assumes that the author wrote it correctly, and encourages copy-pasting potentially erroneous code