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In The Pitiful, Multipage, Connection-boxed Form To Which The Flowchart Has Today Been Elaborated
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In the pitiful, multipage, connection-boxed form to which the flowchart has
today been elaborated, it has proved to be useless as a design tool --
programmers draw flowcharts after, not before, writing the programs they
describe.
-- Fred Brooks, Jr.
Related:
Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation.
Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them....
when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
-- Fred Brook...
PDL: /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'.
Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which {management} forces one to design programs....
That tendency to err that programmers have been noticed to share with other human beings has often been treated as if it were an awkwardness attendant upon programming's adolescence
which like acne would disappear with the craft's coming of age....
DRAF DRAw Flowcha
PDL /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'.
Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which management forces one to design programs....