The use of APL in a concurrent data flow environment

Abstract

The concept of data flow analysis allows us to think of programs as an entity which consists of many modules which are working together. The need for viewing a problem as a series of sequential steps becomes invalid and we may observe the problem which is to be solved as a series of data transformations. Order of execution is no longer of primary concern. APL lends itself to highly modularized coding techniques. I will demonstrate that APL is the perfect language for use as a data flow model.