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codycraven on April 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: IBM will offer free COBOL training

I've found that flowcharts are enormously helpful for software design and communicating the design decided upon. Maybe in your role you don't have a need to communicate how software should be written?

perl4ever on April 12, 2020 [–]

I like to make hierarchical text outlines.

I feel like once you need a general graph sort of structure, you're too far down the road to spaghetti and/or excessive detail.

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