This pseudocode is no longer a proposed standard. See User:Dcoetzee/Wikicode.
This issue has generated much discussion, and here seems to be the best place to continue that discussion, but for background reading, you should also see Talk:Pseudocode, Talk:Algorithms on Wikipedia, and User talk:Dcoetzee/Wikicode.
(I've added the above for newcomers, like me, not existing protagonists. Mark Hurd 10:16, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC))
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