Flowchart

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flowchart
       n : a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer
           program or an accounting system [syn: {flow chart}, {flow
           diagram}, {flow sheet}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:



  flowchart n. [techspeak] An archaic form of visual control-flow
     specification employing arrows and `speech balloons' of various shapes.
     Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely silly, and
     associate them with {COBOL} programmers, {card walloper}s, and other
     lower forms of life. This attitude follows from the observations that
     flowcharts (at least from a hacker's point of view) are no easier to
     read than code, are less precise, and tend to fall out of sync with the
     code (so that they either obfuscate it rather than explaining it, or
     require extra maintenance effort that doesn't improve the code). See
     also {PDL}, sense 1.