Dataflow programming

In <a href="/facts/Computer_programming/QmSsFnu0">computer programming</a>, dataflow programming is a <a href="/facts/Programming_paradigm/7LwgRpB3">programming paradigm</a> that models a program as a <a href="/facts/Directed_graph/YBdfQ0um">directed graph</a> of the data flowing between operations, thus implementing <a href="/facts/Dataflow/jea04eH2">dataflow</a> principles and architecture. Dataflow <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming languages</a> share some features of <a href="/facts/Functional_language/cdxqPEIM">functional languages</a>, and were generally developed in order to bring some functional concepts to a language more suitable for numeric processing. Some authors use the term datastream instead of <a href="/facts/Dataflow/jea04eH2">dataflow</a> to avoid confusion with dataflow computing or <a href="/facts/Dataflow_architecture/lKJhE7ke">dataflow architecture</a>, based on an indeterministic machine paradigm. Dataflow programming was pioneered by <a href="/facts/Jack_Dennis/MnReKxax">Jack Dennis</a> and his graduate students at MIT in the 1960s.

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Dataflow programming