Bruno_Coelho comments on Checking for the Programming Gear - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 09 September 2012 03:41:42AM 0 points [-]

Try Ruby.

I've learned how to program in C++, but to someone with no background, normally is taught pseudocode. Assuming the person has some tendency to thing in terms of inferences, not random connections.

Comment author: komponisto 09 September 2012 05:47:16AM 4 points [-]

to someone with no background, normally is taught pseudocode.

Tip: you can turn this into standard English syntax in one of two ways: (1) delete the word "to" and the comma after "background"; or alternatively, (2) change "normally is taught pseudocode" to "pseudocode is normally taught".

(Apologies if you're actually a native English speaker and the above was merely a typo -- but it pattern-matches to the calquing of syntax from another language, e.g. one of the Romance languages; and your name suggests that you might be a Portuguese speaker.)