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Wikipage for J.A. Sory

On Algorithm Syntax: Or Why Writing in a Popular Language is a Disservice to Humanity

If one frequents wikipedia pages dedicated to algorithms one will find that the majority of them are written in a specific language, often with the justification that it makes the algorithm easier for other programmers to implement. This is an erroneous assessment for two reasons

1. It assumes that the reader would understand the programming language selected and properties exploited in the code
2. It assumes that the author wrote it correctly, and encourages copy-pasting potentially erroneous code