Editing Dataflow programming (section)

{{Short description|Computer programming paradigm}}
In [[computer programming]], '''dataflow programming''' is a [[programming paradigm]] that models a program as a [[directed graph]] of the data flowing between operations, thus implementing [[dataflow]] principles and architecture.<ref name="sigops">{{cite web |last1=Schwarzkopf |first1=Malte |title=The Remarkable Utility of Dataflow Computing |url=https://www.sigops.org/2020/the-remarkable-utility-of-dataflow-computing/ |website=ACM SIGOPS |access-date=31 July 2022 |date=7 March 2020}}</ref> Dataflow [[programming language]]s share some features of [[functional language]]s, 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 ''[[dataflow]]'' to avoid confusion with dataflow computing or [[dataflow architecture]], based on an indeterministic machine paradigm. Dataflow programming was pioneered by [[Jack Dennis]] and his graduate students at MIT in the 1960s.