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in the media/audio/video, what is called "dataflow" is a very popular
paradigm.PureData is a good open source example of it:
http://puredata.info/
but still, these dataflow environments have provision for script/code boxes
to be integrated with the rest of the flow, because in the end, certain
things are really easier to do with a couple of words in a text file.

for pure programming, I heard recently of flow based programming as a
forgotten programming paradigm which could solve many of the problems we
nowadays face with OO:
http://jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/

L-P

2009/7/30 Brian Candler <b.candler / pobox.com>

> Ian Hobson wrote:
> > There was one attempt at a language that plugged together data flow
> > pipes. I can no longer remember the name.
>
> Fantastic. That would let you store all programs as graphs, which could
> be serialised as big blobs of XML for ultimate portability. Programming
> could then become as simple as this:
>
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/OS/wsbpel-v2.0-OS.html#_Toc164738480
>
> (scroll down a little to see the examples)
>
> A 'while' loop could be accomplished with just a few dozen clicks of the
> mouse:
>
> http://www.activebpel.org/samples/samples-2/BPEL_Samples/Resources/Docs/while.html
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