It is important to note that notations such as UML or the flowchart symbol collection are not pattern languages.
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"Canonical flowchart symbols " : The graphical aide called a flowchart offers a way to describe and document an algorithm ( and a computer program of one ).
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This may include NOT using flowchart symbols, or " little boxes with shapes, " if the people who will follow the SOP can't deal with them easily.