[plug] Web database stuff - Bollocks

Hook hooker at opera.iinet.net.au
Fri Aug 24 21:04:42 WST 2001


Leon Blackwell wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:31:46AM +0000, Mike wrote:
> > 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 ;)
>
> The wheel is a descriptive method?  :)
>
> Flowcharts are not a great way to design or represent algorithms
> for most modern languages because they do not guarantee a one-to
> one mapping to teir control structures.
>
> They are great if you want to write code that's full of GOTOs, or
> if you are disciplined enough to only create charts that you know
> will map into your implementation language's control structures.

No, no, no ... remember, you can also fill your subroutines/functions with
seemingly random 'return's. Every bit as much fun as computer GOTOs (for
those hardy souls who remember FORTRAN).

The Hooker





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