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by kitd 1589 days ago
A few years back I wrote a tool that would convert Ascii flow diagrams in source code comments to equivalent source code declarations that implemented the flow. The idea being that the comments didn't just describe the flow visually, but actually defined it.

Tools like this helped greatly with that. Plain old text files don't lend themselves well to such 2D visual descriptions.