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November 4, 2009
A new edition of Flow-Based Programming is in the works
Yesterday I learned that J. Paul Morrison has begun work on a new edition of his 1994 book Flow-Based Programming. Morrison began working with flow-based programming systems (FBPs) at IBM around 1969. He has developed several FBPs, including Advanced Modular Programming System (AMPS, 1969-70) and Data Flow Development Manager (DFDM, late 1980s, with Wayne Stevens). Flow-Based Programming touches on nearly all of the issues important to FBPs, such as parameterization, deadlock avoidance and buffering, checkpointing and transactional behavior and much more. The book does miss a few topics; data partitioning isn't mentioned, and data modeling is not given the attention it deserves. But overall it's a terrific book.
Morrison's book is a great reminder that the ideas behind today's FBPs have been around for a long time - because they work!
The full text of the first edition of the book is available on Morrison's web site, in PDF and HTML formats.
-- Jerry Callen, engineering
Posted by expressor software at November 4, 2009 2:30 PM
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