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From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
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Subject: Re: Flowchart symbols (in ASCII) ISO-1028
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 93 21:57:09 CDT
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John D. Boggs (jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us) wrote:
: From article <C5qBq9.5D8@sugar.neosoft.com>, by peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva):
: > Why flowcharts? I thought they went out with lovebeads and bellbottoms.
: Actually, no. We used them all the time in my systems analysis course last
: semester.
Aieeee!! Software Engineering rears its ugly head! Heh. Actually, a great
non-flowcharting book for systems analysis is _Object-Oriented Systems Analysis:
A Model-Driven Approach_ By Embley, Kurtz, and Woodfield (Yourdon Press a
splinter of Prentice-Hall). It basically makes everything look like a
SLAM network diagram, and is great for OOP, but even if you're using
a functional language it's more intuitive than yucky flowcharts.
-Louis
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