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Flowcharts tend to suck when trying to describe anything remotely complicated. I doubt anyone is seriously using the original flowchart to get any work done, the actual code must be more readable, and would be guaranteed to be correct.

On the other hand, overloading a flowchart with things like "unless" or "including" makes it harder to follow.






That flowchart is absolutely what happens when a bunch of programmers got told to "draw the complete system" in one diagram - which is absolutely not how it should've been represented.



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