Pseudocode

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Pseudocode

I asked the people on the r/ProgrammingLanguages Discord server to "implement a function that prints N numbers of the Fibonacci sequence". For fun, I decided to analyse the results a bit.

Function keyword

• no keyword: 4 (28.57%)
• no function declared: 3 (21.42%)
• fn: 2 (14.28%)
• def: 2 (14.28%)
• function: 2 (14.28%)
• func: 1 (7.14%)

Block syntax

• indentation: 8 (57.14%)
• braces: 5 (35.71%)
• no block used: 1 (7.14%)

Assignment operator

• =: 10 (71.42%)
• no assignments used: 3 (21.42%)
• <-: 1 (7.14%)

Loop

• for: 7 (50.00%)
• repeat n times, repeat n, n times: 3 (21.42%)
• no loop used: 3 (21.42%)
• while: 1 (7.14%)

Expression terminator

• no explicit terminator: 10 (71.42%)
• semicolon: 2 (14.28%)
• did not write multiple statements: 2 (14.28%)

Types

• no type annotations: 11 (78.57%)
• type annotations: 2 (14.28%)
• no variables declared: 1 (7.14%)

Implementation technique

• loop: 10 (71.42%)
• recursive function: 2 (14.28%)
• no proper implementation: 2 (14.28%)

Output

• prints n elements of the Fibonacci sequence (a separate loop that called the actual fib implementation once for each element counts as well): 8 (57.14%)
• does not print anything, but is able to return the nth element of the Fibonacci sequence: 3 (21.42%)
• no proper implementation: 2 (14.28%)
• does not print anything, but is able to return a list containing n elements of the Fibonacci sequence: 1 (7.14%)

Pseudocode with existing implementations

• wrote working Javascript: 1 (7.14%)
• wrote working Python: 1 (7.14%)
• wrote something else: 12 (85.71%)