[plug] Web database stuff - Bollocks

[Mike]

I really meant the last part,

I'm pretty sure caveman didn't draw anything like a flow chart
to picture decision making process, I can't see they had much need
to handle such complexity combinatorial logic. Caveman drawings
were more like doodling - we are all apt to do the same thing
even in the 21st century. So your assumption that cavemen made
drawings for the same reason some people use flowcharts is queer.

In any case flowcharts have their level of appropriateness and
its good way to extract the core from the obfuscation of someone's
particular approach and a possibly useful step to optimisation
where there is limited ROM in an embedded application (I draw
on experience here).

IMO. Its not clever to abandon a descriptive method simply because
it was conceived prior to your birth, I think the wheel still
has its uses ;)

Rgds

Mike



At 11:51 PM 23/8/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Mike wrote:
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>> At 05:53 PM 23/8/2001 +0800, Peter Wright <pete at akira.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>> >Real programmers don't draw flowcharts.  Flowcharts are, after all, the
>> >illiterate's form of documentation.  Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how
>> >much good it did them.
>>
>> This is a joke - right ?
>
>I dont think so. Flow-charts went out with paper-tape and mainframes. They
>looked good, but seemed about as useful as a Barry Jones Knowledge-Nation
>chart.
>  Perhaps you are confusing them with more modern charts, like object
>relationship diagrams? Flowcharts are procedural.
>   Or are you suggesting that cave-men profited well prom flow-charts?
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>-- 
>Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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>There goes the good time that was had by all.
>                -- Bette Davis, remarking on a passing starlet
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