Go find "Time Enough For Love". You'll find all these and more in the interludes, but they are attributed to Lazarus Long (aka Woodrow Wilson Smith). Definitely worth reading (over and over again)!

Jack Myers

wizardzz wrote:

How many of you hash out the logic of what you are about to write in a comment, then code it?

I've been doing this for over 25 years now, and still find it helpful (especially with complicated logic). Then, when I add in the code I push my pseudocode out as line or block comments. As mentioned in other responses, it's usually for my own (in)sanity when I look at the code 6 months later. Curiously, I find that my pseudocode tends to resemble whatever language I spent the most time in at my previous job (except for those two places that I did COBOL, but one of them was equally split with 370 assembler).

Jack Myers