Junior programmers were once required to produce a flow chart of their program before beginning to code. They were told that it would help them work out their logic so that their coding and testing would go more smoothly.
I think it was a scam.
The real purpose of a Program flow-chart was to slow down the coding process in order to ease the workload of the keypunch department.
Full disclosure: When I started my career there was no keypunch department where I worked. We shared terminals; one for every two people. Yes kiddies, I said terminals not PCs emulating terminals.
Those were not the good old days.
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