Elements
Structured English or "pseudocode" consists of the following elements:
- Operation statements written as English phrases executed from the top down
- Conditional blocks indicated by keywords such as IF, THEN, and ELSE
- Repetition blocks indicated by keywords such as DO, WHILE, and UNTIL
Use the following guidelines when writing Structured English:
- Statements should be clear and unambiguous
- Use one line per logical element
- All logic should be expressed in operational, conditional, and repetition blocks
- Logical blocks should be indented to show relationship
- Keywords should be capitalized
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Famous quotes containing the word elements:
“The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)