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I might have been unclear; what I meant was that the different programming languages or models that people call "dataflow programming" (spreadsheets, Lucid, Oz,

by gruseom 13y ago

I might have been unclear; what I meant was that the different programming languages or models that people call "dataflow programming" (spreadsheets, Lucid, Oz, FBP, etc.) have a lot of differences between them; and on top of those there is dataflow analysis in compilers, dataflow hardware architectures, and so on.

seanmcdirmid 13y ago
Data-flow is a broad term that doesn't mean one specific thing, but it is usually used correctly in what it means; e.g. data-flow analysis contrasts nicely with control-flow analysis. I don't find it confusing. I believe FBP primarily deals with data flow, not control flow, but the "flow" in FBP seems to be left intentionally ambiguous.