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From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 26 Feb 2010 02:11:43
Message: <4b87742f$1@news.povray.org>

Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:15:40 -0800, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> 
>> On 02/25/2010 05:20 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/writing_rant.html
>>> He missed "Pseudocode", which I'd write as:
>>>
>>> Coding in pseudocode is like a metaphor.
>> I like it! (although given your sentence construction shouldn't that be
>> "simile", or alternatively "Coding in pseudocode is a metaphor"?)
> 
> Technically, I guess "simile" would be correct there - I always get the 
> two mixed up.  :-)

At least I have something to show for all the effort my teachers spent 
hammering the difference into my head!

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