Recipe diagramming

Picture of recipe diagram
Michael Chu has found a neat way to summarise his recipes, so you can see at glance when you should be doing what – just bung the ingredients into a simplified Nassi-Shneiderman Diagram.

I used NS-diagrams a lot back in the 1980′s to design well-structured programs – there’s no possibility to jump in and out of the middle of loops if you use NS diagrams – and they are very easy to understand. Here is a simple example of processing an order, for example:
Sample NS-diagram

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