The point of pseudocode, at least to me, is that I don’t have to care about standards – I can go “and it’s kind of like this, you get the idea, whatever”. It’s a somewhere between sketch of what I’m thinking at the moment, and whatever notation happens to be most convenient for describing an idea to an audience.
Shorter verdion: use a BASIC implementation. People loved it primarily because it’s so much like pseudo code. Unlike pseudocode, you can also execute it. Win, win!
The point of pseudocode, at least to me, is that I don’t have to care about standards – I can go “and it’s kind of like this, you get the idea, whatever”. It’s a somewhere between sketch of what I’m thinking at the moment, and whatever notation happens to be most convenient for describing an idea to an audience.
Standardizing it defeats the purpose.
Shorter verdion: use a BASIC implementation. People loved it primarily because it’s so much like pseudo code. Unlike pseudocode, you can also execute it. Win, win!
What is the use of learning a fake language that cannot be run anywhere? Why not teach a simple real language like python or ruby?