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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>flowchart</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="flood.html" title="flood"/><link rel="next" href="flower-key.html" title="flower key"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">flowchart</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flood.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flower-key.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="flowchart"/><dt xmlns="" id="flowchart"><b>flowchart</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [techspeak] An archaic form of visual control-flow specification
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employing arrows and <span class="firstterm">speech balloons</span>
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of various shapes. Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely
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silly, and associate them with <a href="../C/COBOL.html"><i class="glossterm">COBOL</i></a> programmers,
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<a href="../C/code-grinder.html"><i class="glossterm">code grinder</i></a>s, and other lower forms of life. This
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attitude follows from the observations that flowcharts (at least from a
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hacker's point of view) are no easier to read than code, are less precise,
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and tend to fall out of sync with the code (so that they either obfuscate
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it rather than explaining it, or require extra maintenance effort that
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doesn't improve the code).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flood.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flower-key.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flood </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flower key</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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