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Thanks for the kind words - it's a real boost when someone talks about how my work has influenced them! I would be happy to have a chat - are you in the UK? If so, we are 5 hours b…

Soon after starting work on what later became Flow-Based Programming (FBP), I decided that I should leave the block layout entirely up to the application developer... A few years l…

That's a great acronym, but IMHO the acronym I came up with for the first iteration of FBP was also pretty good: DOORMAT (Data-Oriented Organization Running Multiple Asynchronous T…

General comment about the Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming : given all the interesting discussion on the 'Net, including this thread, it mig…

"They" meaning "FBP-like" or "FBP-inspired systems", to use Joe Witt's terminology... They are usually control-flow oriented, and to my mind do not yield the productivity and maint…

There's a good discussion in the Google group of the ideas that differentiate what we are now calling "classical" FBP (or CFBP) from FBP-like systems, more and more of which are ap…