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(b) Dataflow programming? And the entire point of storing the "source" on-disk as an AST is to not have the programmer directly edit the file. Use an editor se
by TheLoneWolfling 13y ago
(b) Dataflow programming?
And the entire point of storing the "source" on-disk as an AST is to not have the programmer directly edit the file. Use an editor set up to handle it.
Sort of like JSON. Yes, you can read and edit it manually, but it's primarily meant for something else.
- gruseom 13y agoIn most dataflow languages (e.g. Lucid) the source text is still parsed into a tree; it's the order of execution at runtime that is unusual. That is, dataflow languages are tree-based lexically, but not temporally. A counterexample would be interesting. Is there one? Edit: it feels like if one found a textual notation that matched the dataflow graph in the way that s-exprs match ASTs, that could lead to a Lisp of dataflow languages. I have no idea what that would look like or whether it would be tractable for building real-world systems, but it would be an interesting experiment.