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Xref: sserve comp.os.os2.programmer:10972 comp.os.coherent:8959 comp.os.linux:35093 comp.os.mach:2733 comp.os.minix:21857 comp.periphs:3496 comp.unix.bsd:11857 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:2396 comp.os.386bsd.development:489 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!xanadu!earth From: earth@xanadu.DIALix.oz.au (Robert Chalmers) Followup-To: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach,comp.os.minix,comp.periphs,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach,comp.os.minix,comp.periphs,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development Distribution: world Subject: Re: Flowchart symbols (in ASCII) ISO-1028 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1qv171INN417@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Message-ID: <9304214818@xanadu.DIALix.oz.au> Organization: Mackay Tafe College. Queensland. Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 10:44:42 aest-10 Lines: 31 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.