<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/25 Michael Ossipoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com" target="_blank">email9648742@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
...<br>Are you desperately reaching, in an effort to save unimproved<br>Condorcet from a comparison to ICT and Symmetrical ICT?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you're being hypersensitive here. The idea is simply to have yet one more check that your pseudocode is valid.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Personally, I'd recommend adapting your code for a modern language — python, ruby, coffeescript, or golang. All of these (especially the first ones) are easy to learn; and all have online interactive shells where you could run your program without having to install anything (search "try python" or etc). In the case of coffeescript, it's easy to get it running in the browser, just as you're running gmail now, but without even needing an internet connection.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then testing as suggested would be easy.</div><div><br></div><div>I think that python code, in particular, is even clearer for a non-programmer to read than your pseudocode. </div><div> </div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">...<br>Computer-counted test scenarios can only confirm the<br>already-determined facts that I've stated.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Yes. That's exactly what they're good for. It may have no value for you, because you've checked the algorithm carefully by hand, but for us a computerized test would save us that work. </div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Chris Benham, though very demanding about criterion compliances, is<br>
satisfied with the criterion compliances of ICT.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting point, I'll respond to this separately.</div><div><br></div><div>Jameson </div></div>