[plug] Web database stuff - Bollocks

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Hook wrote:
> Mike Holland wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Mike wrote:
> > > At 05:53 PM 23/8/2001 +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
> > > >Real programmers don't draw flowcharts.
> > I dont think so. Flow-charts went out with paper-tape and mainframes.
> >   Perhaps you are confusing them with more modern charts, like object
> > relationship diagrams? Flowcharts are procedural.
> So, are you saying that no-one writes procedural code any more?

Unfortunately, some people do, but we were talking about Real Programmers.
Real programmers write procedural code in assembler, but they know not to
write anything this way that is complicated enough to need a flow-chart.

> Oh, and mainframes still exist

But the need for mainframes disappeared as our computing power grew, and
our need for procedural programming and flow-charts went with it, so
it's a fairly valid analogy.

Of course the current acceleration in networking technology has meant that
centralized compute-engines have started to make sense again, so
mainframes may (ought) be on the way back.

-Greg Mildenhall