A NotatioN resembliNg a programmiNg laNguage but Not iNteNded for actual compilatioN. It usually combiNes some of the structure of a programmiNg laNguage with aN iNformal Natural-laNguage descriptioN of the computatioNs to be carried out. It is ofteN produced by CASE systems as a basis for later haNd codiNg.