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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
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Subject: Re: apE vs. AVS
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Date: 7 Feb 91 16:31:34 GMT
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>In article <1044@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> mosko@leconte.math.ucla.edu (Bradley Moskowitz) writes:
>>It seems to me at first glance that AVS from Stardent is very similar to apE
>>in its approach. Is there any connection between them, e.g. one based on the
>>other in concept, or are they two very different systems ? Thank you for any
>>comments in this regard.

Dataflow toolkits are very common in signal processing-- speech, seismic, etc.
Toolkits are ubiquitis in UNIX ala text processing, databases.
Where convergence might take place is when people add a function they see
done well in some other's toolkit.