Ask HN: Is Excel a dataflow programming tool?
Sure, but it is not "flow-based programming" (which is what this article is about) because there are no named output ports.
Flow-based Programming
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Re: Flow-based Programming
#32What specifically differentiates this from functional reactive programming?
Matt Carkci's book discusses the different closely related topics of data flow, flow based programming and reactive programming, very clearly and i quite some detail: http://dataflowbook.com/cms Can highly recommend.
Matt Carkci here (the book author)...
Thank you for the kind words... everyone.
When I started writing the book "Dataflow and Reactive Programming Systems" I thought I completely understood the various forms of dataflow. Yet in doing research for the book I found there are many more subtle variations than I ever knew existed.
The book went through many iterations before I felt I accurately described the similarities and differences between the many forms of dataflow. I'm happy to hear that I may have succeeded.
Re: Flow-based Programming
#33There'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 appearing all the time - in particular the topic "Underlying models" - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flow-based-programmi... . If you are interested in the more large volume, data-processing, "classical" FBP implementations, a good…
Hey Paul,
Glad to hear FBP is going strong. You may not remember me but I had a chance to work with you many years ago on getting the Java based FBP framework to input/output HTML (ie like a servlet node). Always loved the paradigm, the parallelism and genericness of the whole concept. I wrote many, many networks and eventually wrote an FBP parser that would create programatic FBP networks from XML files. I was wondering if this sort of thing (interpreter/parser/language) was ever incorporated into FBP itself? If not - are their any plans? Nowadays JSON would be the way to go. Thanks again - hope all is well. Chris S
Re: Flow-based Programming
#34We implemented a flow-based programming language in Mozart Oz at github.com/fractalide/fractalide if you're interested.
I can testify to the usefulness of Mozart Oz. It is a multi-paradigm programming system. I didn't know it had dataflow as one of its paradigms. Is this something written in Mozart Oz rather than an enhancement to it ?