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		keyist on Sept 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Diagrams Through Ascii Art There are many reasons to use text for diagrams: * universally editable forever * diffable version control * can be included with source code documentation/comments * full gamut of unix tools available: you can grep for labels, do regex replace with sed, etc * automation -- anything text-based is inherently scriptable

makmanalp on Sept 2, 2009 [–]

Especially diffable version control! Better than adding an image for code documentation. Although SVGs are also decent in this regard, they'd be slightly overkill.

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