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From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (++           robin)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/25
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Date: 1996-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
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	jtbell@presby.edu (Jon Bell) writes:

	> Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
	>>  You cannot express algorithms unless you
	>>use a language to express them in, and for my taste, a well chosen 
	>>programming language is as good choice as anything.

	>For *my* taste, a real programming language is *better*, because you can 
	>test the correctness of your solution by executing it.  Try *that* with 
	>pseudocode or data flow diagrams!  :-)

You can test the correctness of a solution with
the *algorithm*, whether it's expressed in flowchart,
pseuducode, etc form.

It's considered better to get the design correct *before*
committing the design into detailed code.  Re-designing
the detailed code tends to be more expensive than
re-designing the algorithm.