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20th century American writer
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blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction
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critical liberal intellectual
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lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union
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known for his humanist beliefs
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honorary president of the American Humanist Association
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eight rules for writing a short story:
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Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
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Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
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Start as close to the end as possible.
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No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
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Write to please just one person.
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense.
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shared by Sunny Jackson on 18 Dec 13 - Cached

uses the structural conventions of a programming language, but is intended for human reading rather than machine reading.
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augmented with natural language descriptions of the details, where convenient, or with compact mathematical notation.
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The purpose of using pseudocode is that it is easier for humans to understand than conventional programming language code, and that it is a compact and environment-independent description of the key principles of an algorithm
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commonly used in textbooks and scientific publications that are documenting various algorithms, and also in planning of computer program development, for sketching out the structure of the program before the actual coding takes place.
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No standard for pseudocode syntax exists, as a program in pseudocode is not an executable program. Pseudocode resembles, but should not be confused with, skeleton programs including dummy code, which can be compiled without errors.
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Flowcharts can be thought of as a graphical alternative to pseudocode.
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<variable> = <expression>
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IF <condition> DO stuff; ELSE DO other stuff;
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WHILE <condition> DO stuff;
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