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From: bob@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Visual Programming
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Date: 9 Sep 89 05:11:34 GMT
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In-reply-to: don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU's message of 9 Sep 89 03:40:44 GMT

In article <8909090308.AA23289@brillig.umd.edu> don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) writes:
   Imagine PostScript functions with multiple outputs on the right as
   well as multiple inputs on the left!

Sounds like PIGS on the old Evans & Sutherland workstations.  You
could type in a dataflow language, or you could edit a circuit diagram
and have the language spit out the back for digestion by the compiler.

I think PostScript would be a nicer language in which to express the
system, though.