Flow-Based Programming of Paul Morrison

[Mikael Karlsson]

There is another component based model, Fractal, that I think
could be interesting to look at from an Erlang perspective:

http://fractal.objectweb.org/
http://fractal.objectweb.org/specification/index.html

Cheers
Mikael

Fri 11 mars 2005 20:42  Sean Hinde wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2005, at 17:24, Vladimir Sekissov wrote:
> > Good day,
> >
> > http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/index.shtml
> > http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
> >
> > I've found materials on this site interesting for me and very close to
> > Erlang way.
> >
> > #|
> > In "Flow-Based Programming" (FBP), applications are defined as
> > networks of "black box" processes, which exchange data across
> > predefined connections. These black box processes can be reconnected
> > endlessly to form different applications without having to be changed
> > internally. It is thus naturally component-oriented.
> >
> > |#
>
> The authors response to Erlang is also quite interesting. It seems the
> message did not quite get through (so to speak)
>
> http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ErlangLanguage
>
> I took a quick look at it, and I have a few points:
> 	• 	 I have trouble picturing running millions of transactions a day on
> it, but maybe you don't need such large volumes.
> 	• 	 I believe FBP is not really a programming language, so much as a
> 'coordination' language - one of its goals is to be able to easily
> interface different languages to each other, rather than provide all
> the things you might want to do in a single language.
> 	• 	 Looks like ports would have to be added onto Erlang - although you
> can probably simulate them by passing process Ids around.
> 	• 	 Can FP support a full "2-dimensional" net - I know you said you
> thought this wouldn't be necessary, but I have my doubts. Click here
> [1] for an example.
>
>
> Sean