On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:58:33 -0400, William Gill wrote:

> I seem to be having a mentally bad period lately . My code is
> beginning to be terrible convoluted mess, and I shudder to think
> what it will be like to go back in a couple months and try to follow
> it, so I'm going back to basics. I need to flowchart what I'm doing.
> The problem is I can't seem to find anything that works well,and
> doesn't cost an arm and leg. I have an old copy of Smart Draw, but
> it's out dated and does not work right on WinXP. I seem to remember
> Nassi-Shneiderman Diagrams were intended to be implemented via word
> processors, but I haven't done one in 30 years.
>
> So, does anyone flowchart anymore? If so what do you use/suggest?

I do. I have a nice plastic template that says it was made in 1975,
and a box of cheap mechanical pencils. Two or three redraws and I've
usually got things well enough organized to move on to writing code.
Flowcharting software just mades it too easy to amend the chart to match
the code, and then end up with spagetti programs and spagetti charts to
match.

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