[plt-scheme] Diagrams

On Jan 16, 2006, at 5:45 AM, Noel Welsh wrote:

> --- Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Special forms like cond and ubiquitous techniques like
>> recursion can be
>> represented with flowcharts or UML; I just don't want to
>> find out later
>> that the Scheme community uses something else.
>
> There is no standard diagram notation that I know of.  I've
> found types + code to be clearer and faster than UML,
> though this experience is at the design end.  I've never
> had the situation where I've been required to produce this
> sort of end user documentation (well, once, and it was a
> joke).

Hmmm.  I was required to produce this sort of end user documentation 
once, and it was also a joke.  I was merely hoping to produce something 
that wasn't a joke, this time.  Am I to conclude that diagrams have no 
place in programming or its management?

rac