From: earth@xanadu.DIALix.oz.au (Robert Chalmers) Subject: Re: Flowchart symbols (in ASCII) ISO-1028 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 10:44:42 aest-10
Mark Montague (plph@engin.umich.edu) wrote:
: 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
So thats what I was doing wrong at the budget committe. I will
now use flow charts!!! Thanks Mark. I guess I tend to forget even
I don't truly understand NULL pointers.