From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 08:13:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20954 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 08:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panix.com (panix.com [198.7.0.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA20932 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 08:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbarrm@localhost) by panix.com (8.7.5/8.7/PanixU1.3) id LAA08816; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:12:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:12:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Masterson To: Sean Kelly cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Design & Implementation of 4.4BSD In-Reply-To: <199606091441.OAA02110@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Masterson 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 <---<---<---<---<---<