Object-oriented dataflow

  • Authors:
  • T. D. Kimura

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • VL '95 Proceedings of the 11th International IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

In our efforts to develop an object-oriented visual programming language, the dataflow model of computation is extended from its traditional functional model to an object-oriented model. It is argued that the concept of subroutine in the object-oriented model requires two different types of calling (activation) mechanisms, the synchronous call and the asynchronous call. Asynchronous subroutine call offers a new abstraction mechanism for object-oriented programming, different from the traditional class-based abstraction and functional abstraction.