From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 07:41:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA10306 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 07:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA10298 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 07:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA02110; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 14:41:27 GMT Message-Id: <199606091441.OAA02110@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA138771287; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 08:41:27 -0600 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 08:41:27 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: jbarrm@panix.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Barry Masterson on Sun, 9 Jun 1996 08:36:19 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: Design & Implementation of 4.4BSD Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Masterson writes: Barry> What language is this? Are there other examples of this Barry> type of programming in the FreeBSD source code? Are you serious? It's called pseudo-code ... you use plain English in the style of a programming language in order to convey an algorithm, not to show something that will compile. Many textbooks from the realm of computer science make use of pseudo-code. Sometimes, the exercises at the end of a chapter will even say, ``Implement the pseudo-code on page x.'' To see FreeBSD's actual implementation of disksort(), see the file /sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_disksubr.c -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/