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February 14, 2013

When All The Program’s A Graph…

Filed under: Flow-Based Programming (FBP),Functional Programming,Graphs — Patrick Durusau @ 8:00 pm

When All The Program’s A Graph – Prismatic’s Plumbing Library

From the post:

At some point as a programmer you might have the insight/fear that all programming is just doing stuff to other stuff.

Then you may observe after coding the same stuff over again that stuff in a program often takes the form of interacting patterns of flows.

Then you may think hey, a program isn’t only useful for coding datastructures, but a program is a kind of datastructure and that with a meta level jump you could program a program in terms of flows over data and flow over other flows.

That’s the kind of stuff Prismatic is making available in the Graph extension to their plumbing package (code examples), which is described in an excellent post: Graph: Abstractions for Structured Computation.

Formalizing the structure of FP code. Who could argue with that?

Read the first post as a quick introduction to the second.

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