User talk:Xamgore

Script characters interfere with the code. The font needs to be monospace code, not typeset math style. --Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 00:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Try reading, for example, David Turner's Miranda paper which I cited. It's typewriter font. --Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 00:43, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

D. A. Turner (1985) Miranda: a non-strict functional language with polymorphic types, Proc. of a conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture Pages 1-16

There are multiple ways to depict algorithms. Computer languages indeed use objects, and the objects can be mathematical. The registers of the SECD machine are meant to evoke hardware registers. Stacks, heaps, hardware pointers have electronic engineering roots; it is usual to depict the hardware registers with letters (as in the ASCII character set), and typewriter font is how the registers have been rendered for decades.

Algorithm animation is one method that communicates algorithms in an intuitive way, for example. Pictorial rendering of the data flow can communicate an algorithm as well.