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 grinder s, 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).

