> I'd say somewhat impractical since one can scribble those diagrams in MSPaint much faster than making them in ASCII first
...until you want to tweak the layout of an almost completed diagram slightly, and now you hate life.
For a particular type of diagram (notably there are very few options, and the more options you add the closer you are to needing a full diagram editing program (like asciiflow) instead of a text file) this is a great productivity booster.
...until you want to tweak the layout of an almost completed diagram slightly, and now you hate life.
For a particular type of diagram (notably there are very few options, and the more options you add the closer you are to needing a full diagram editing program (like asciiflow) instead of a text file) this is a great productivity booster.