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I've always wondered why we haven't just come up with an actual language with a pseudocode syntax. Even if the focus was on prototyping with the intention of transpiling to a different lang later it seems like it would save us some time having proper dev tools for prototyping with pseudocode.

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I think a part of the purpose of pseudocode is it helps you focus on what the code is trying to do and it removes the distractions of syntax, style, etc.

You can probably just use LLMs to convert the pseudocode anyway.

ALGOL was supposed to be this, but then people kept on making extensions to make it compilable.

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