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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:36:53 -0500
- From: Michael Witbrock <mjw+@cs.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Flow Charting Software
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan9.165816.22693@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.misc: 9-Jan-93 Flow Charting
- Software Dale Poole@atlas.cs.upei (770)
-
- > I'm a newbie programmer, currently in the throes of flow charting. Designing
- > the charts is no big deal, but putting them into a form that is neat and
- > easy to read for my instructors is a different matter.
-
-
- Leaving aside the body of research which demonstrates that flowcharts
- are absolutely useless (infact harmful) to the enterprise of writing
- programs, I'd suggest buying a copy of professional draw. You can have
- clips for the little boxes, and, if enterprising, you can program it
- with arrex to produce boxes sized to fit your text and connected to the
- previous box. Heck, you could even have Arexx write a program template
- to go with the flowchart as you drew it. But it'd probably be full of
- goto's, hence my comments above.
-
- Of course, that depends on whether PDraw is cheap enough for you. It's
- certainly cheaper than a CAD package.
-
- michael
-
- p.s. of course, if you succeed in writing the Arexx programs required
- to automate it all, you will have graduated from flowcharts.... but they
- aren't necessary, and what you want *is* a draw program, not a paint one.
-