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