Effect of Data Flow Architecture on Programming Language Design

This study is concerned with the aspects of data flow architecture. A survey of data flow processors is presented. The two broad classes of languages, procedural and applicative, are considered for the language design for the data flow architecture. Starting from the basic data flow program representation, the study extendends to the high level languages. Method for translating the conventional presented. language to data flow representation is Consideration is given to the conventional structured languages. A general discussion of usage of appli.cative language classes are presented, without considering specific syntax. The material presented can be extended to specific syntax design and its practical use can be studied from the given general discussions.Computing and Information Sciences