[ur-whale]

>But is that truly "universal" the way that a psuedo-code algorithm is universal?

My experience has been that pseudo-code is anything but universal.

In fact, having had many times to implement actual working code from research papers pseudo-code, I would posit that pseudo-code is nothing but a license for academics to provide stuff that simply doesn't work to the reader and get away with it. Thanks to pseudo-code, they get to gently skip over the hard bits to get the paper out the door as quickly as possible.

Papers with actual, git-clonable, working code, should be the standard for CS academic publishing.