Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:12:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Design & Implementation of 4.4BSD Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960609110710.7211A-100000@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <199606091441.OAA02110@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov>
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On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> writes: > > Barry> What language is this? Are there other examples of this > Barry> type of programming in the FreeBSD source code? > > Are you serious? It's called pseudo-code ... you use plain English in > the style of a programming language in order to convey an algorithm, > not to show something that will compile. Many textbooks from the > realm of computer science make use of pseudo-code. Sometimes, the > exercises at the end of a chapter will even say, ``Implement the > pseudo-code on page x.'' > Serious? Yes. I've never run across pseudo-code before. Didn't know there was such an animal. But anyway, Thank you Sean, and Jonathan for setting me straight on this. > To see FreeBSD's actual implementation of disksort(), see the file > > /sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_disksubr.c > > -- > Sean Kelly > NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov > Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/ > Barry Masterson jbarrm@panix.com >--->--->--->--->---> FreeBSD 2.1.0-R <---<---<---<---<---<
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