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Well, when you bring back a programming concept invented in the 70s, there can hardly be much new about it. But at least I'm being quite honest about this on th
by bergie 14y ago
Well, when you bring back a programming concept invented in the 70s, there can hardly be much new about it. But at least I'm being quite honest about this on the NoFlo website:
FBP itself is not a new idea: it comes from a term IBM used in the 70s to define the concepts of more manageable business workflows. NoFlo, however, refreshes these concepts and brings them to Node.js applications.
When I started with NoFlo there were open source implementations of FBP for Java and C#, but I wanted something a bit more dynamic.
- gruseom 14y agoI commend you for reviving and implementing a past good idea. The 60s and 70s are a treasure trove of visionary ideas that for whatever reasons didn't win big at the time. Some of them retain high potential. We should spend more time studying these things and less time chaotically generating superficial goop; novelty is not innovation. That being said, I have had trouble figuring out what FBP is. I browsed through Morrison's book and just saw a bunch of box-and-line diagrams that my prejudices cause me to dismiss. I looked for good online resources about it and didn't find any. He doesn't seem to be the best articulator of his work. But I'm interested and open and want to get it. What do you recommend?