Flowchart, N. & V.: [From Flow To Ripple Down In Rich Profusion, As Hair + Chart A Cryptic Hidden-treasure Map Designed To Mislead The Uninitiated.

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flowchart, n. & v.:
[From flow to ripple down in rich profusion, as hair + chart
a cryptic hidden-treasure map designed to mislead the uninitiated.]
1. n. The solution, if any, to a class of Mascheroni construction
problems in which given algorithms require geometrical representation
using only the 35 basic ideograms of the ANSI template. 2. n. Neronic
doodling while the system burns. 3. n. A low-cost substitute for
wallpaper. 4. n. The innumerate misleading the illiterate. A
thousand pictures is worth ten lines of code. -- The Programmer's
Little Red Vade Mecum, Mao Tse T'umps. 5. v.intrans. To produce
flowcharts with no particular object in mind. 6. v.trans. To obfuscate
(a problem) with esoteric cartoons.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

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