Lucid, The dataflow programming language

Book · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6487814

Wadge, W W; Ashcroft, E S

Lucid is a functional language, but one which supports variables, i.e. values which change with time. Lucid programmers can therefore use iteration (repetition) as well as recursion. The statements of a Lucid program are equations which can be thought of as defining a network of processors and communication lines. Lucid's dataflow approach to programming has more in common with that of the UNIX (TM) shell, with its filters and pipelines, than with the imperative, one-step-at-a-time approach of a conventional language like C or Pascal.

• OSTI ID: 6487814
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
DATA-FLOW PROCESSING
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
DIGITAL FILTERS
EQUATIONS
ITERATIVE METHODS
PASCAL
PROGRAMMING
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