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From: larry@pdn.UUCP (Larry Swift)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Basics of Program Design
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Date: 21 Jun 88 12:33:03 GMT
References: <900@td2cad.intel.com>
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In article <900@td2cad.intel.com> brister@td3cad.UUCP (James Brister) writes:
>What I mean is: do experienced programmers usually write flow charts,
>or pseudo code. Do they write the whole program out by hand first or
>build it up in their favorite editor?

Flow charts or state diagrams (I prefer the former) are better thought 
organizers, but are difficult to maintain, so pseudo code usually wins out.
However, with flow charts it is difficult to forget about a path.  Does 
ANYONE write code by hand, anymore?  I doubt it.


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