12 Feb
2011
12 Feb
'11
5:58 p.m.
On 2/10/2011 7:48 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Somebody just left an IBM FLOWCHARTING TEMPLATE
X20-8020 on the floor in
the hallway.
Remember when flowcharts were a REQUIRED part of documentation?
So, sure enough, we wrote a program that would take a deck of FORTRAN
cards and produce a flowchart. It was not a particcularly USABLE
flowchart, but it met the "requirement".
Perhaps we should couple a flowchart editor/creator with a code generator
as our next paradigm :-?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
Something along those lines has actually occurred to me too. I keep
thinking there should be *something* that could be done to revolutionize
the way software is created. I'm pretty convinced the way it's
currently done is not the answer. Though I still really enjoy writing C
code, and though I'm careful to try to create easily understandable and
maintainable code, I always seem to finish projects with the uneasy
feeling that it could have been done better, maybe a lot better. BTW, I
reject the idea that OO is the answer. I think when I was younger I
didn't feel that way; I was just happy that the blooming thing worked!
Maybe there's a penalty for spending too many years doing too many
projects - you start to get all philosophical about the process...
Later,
Charlie C.