On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:11:33 -0800, Kevin Wampler wrote:

> 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!

LOL

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