From: plph@engin.umich.edu (Mark Montague) Subject: Re: Flowchart symbols (in ASCII) ISO-1028 Date: 19 Apr 1993 20:14:25 GMT
In article <1993Apr19.171135.19105@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>The two places I have seen flow charts in the real world were to sell IBM
>flowcharting forms (like printer spacing charts, except they couldn't
>serve a useful purpose in a second life as 1:1.5 scale graph paper) and in
>the museum of science and industry.
>
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@icarus.weber.edu
There *is* a use for flowcharts: I have found that non-programmers
(lawyers, managers, etc...) can read understand them much better than
pseudo-code, state machines, and transition diagrams. They look pretty,
and they're graphical, so they don't scare the people who wear business
suits.
I use flowcharts when I want to make a non-programmer understand a
algorithm.
Mark Montague
plph@caen.engin.umich.edu