Coding Horror: Pseudocode or Code?: "Although I'm a huge fan of Code Complete -- it is my single most recommended programming book for good reason -- there are chapters in it that I haven't been able to digest, even after 16 years.
One of those chapters describes something called the Pseudocode Programming Process. And on paper, at least, it sounds quite sensible. Before writing a routine, you describe what that routine should do in plain English. So if we we set out to write an error handling lookup routine, we'd first write it in pseudocode:"
