:flowchart:: [techspeak] n. 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, {card
walloper}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). See also
{pdl}, sense 3.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
