Talk:Dataflow programming
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Some points, which I will address should I get the time:
- The parallellism that dataflow languages inherently support is not as useful as it seems; in practise, the parallellism is too finely grained for modern multicomputer architectures, and the overhead of managing dataflow at runtime is excessive.
- Prograph was designed originally to be a visual programming language; it is a dataflow-based language as a side-effect, based on the fact that the dataflow paradigm lends itself well to the visual design space (I know this because Dr. Philip Cox, the maker of Prograph, is an instructor of mine).