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This is a brilliant concept. Finally something new worth being excited about.

• aaronblohowiak 17y ago
  Graph-based approaches to program flow control are pretty interesting. The connecting of things to each other in a stream-like fashion is similar to Chuck, which you might enjoy.
  • tlack 17y ago
    This is very interesting, thank you. Any others like this? I'll contribute something to you, in return: if you're interested in graph-based audio/visual programming, check out vvvv for Windows. It's like Processing, but visual (i.e., designed via UI), and very very fast. It was made by visual artists who actually use it to make big bucks, rather than computer science weenies.
    • dkersten 17y ago
      Theres plenty of dataflow-type languages out there. One of the most interesting, IMHO, is Lustre, since it seems to be used heavily in the defence and aerospace industries, though its pretty tough to find any information about it (though there were quite a few code examples in a recent SIGPLAN publication). Besides that, you may find the languages listed here interesting: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461796/dataflow-programming-languages/949771#949771 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461796/dataflow-programmi... I've been playing around with dataflow concepts myself and personally see them as the way forward in programming, though I'm not quite sure yet how it would need to be done to catch on as a mainstream language. I think I'll play with anic for a bit and see what happens :)
      • axman6 17y ago
        Once they actually have a compiler you mean?
        • dkersten 17y ago
          Indeed
    • gridspy 17y ago
      Many computer science "weenies" go on to make big bucks, thank-you very much.
      • tlack 17y ago
        have you ever tried to use Processing for business? i did some visualization/art stuff that maxed out at 20-30 fps in processing, and was easier to do and ran at 100+ fps in vvvv. it's a toy.