jpaulmorrison

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by jpaulmorrison 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words - it's a real boost when someone talks about how my work has influenced them! I would be happy to have a chat - are you in the UK? If so, we are 5 hours behind you, so we can plan a chat time accordingly...
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by jpaulmorrison 6y ago
Soon after starting work on what later became Flow-Based Programming (FBP), I decided that I should leave the block layout entirely up to the application developer... A few years later, James Martin (1981) was working on what he called 4th-
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by jpaulmorrison 6y ago
That's a great acronym, but IMHO the acronym I came up with for the first iteration of FBP was also pretty good: DOORMAT (Data-Oriented Organization Running Multiple Asynchronous Tasks)! However, it was deemed to be lacking in gravita
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by jpaulmorrison 6y ago
General comment about the Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming : given all the interesting discussion on the 'Net, including this thread, it might be time to update the Wikipedi
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by jpaulmorrison 6y ago
"They" meaning "FBP-like" or "FBP-inspired systems", to use Joe Witt's terminology... They are usually control-flow oriented, and to my mind do not yield the productivity and maintainability advantages of
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by jpaulmorrison 12y ago
There'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 topi