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flowchart: n. [techspeak] An archaic form of visual control-flow specification
employing arrows and speech balloons
of various shapes. Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely
silly, and associate them with COBOL programmers,
code grinders, and other lower forms of life. This
attitude follows from the observations that flowcharts (at least from a
hacker's point of view) are no easier to read than code, are less precise,
and tend to fall out of sync with the code (so that they either obfuscate
it rather than explaining it, or require extra maintenance effort that
doesn't improve the code).
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