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a decision tree pretending it's a map so you feel less lost.
means a diagram of boxes and arrows that shows the steps and branches of a process, so complexity looks like a subway line.
from born in the 1920s as the process chart for industrial engineering, then formalized by ansi in the 1960s so programmers could sketch logic before wasting punch cards.
first userfrank gilbreth, efficiency obsessive, pitched it in 1921
diamond shapemeans a yes or no decision, always
software eraexploded once flowcharting preceded actual coding
ironyoften more complicated than the process it explains