Joule (programming language)

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Joule is a concurrent dataflow programming language, designed for building distributed applications. It is so concurrent, that the order of statements within a block is irrelevant to the operation of the block. Statements are executed whenever possible, based on their inputs. Everything in Joule happens by sending messages. There is no control flow. Instead, the programmer describes the flow of data, making it a dataflow programming language.

It is considered the precursor to the E programming language.

Joule
Paradigm(s) multi-paradigm: object-oriented, distributed, Dataflow
Appeared in 1996
Designed by E. Dean Tribble
Typing discipline untyped
Influenced by Concurrent Logic Programming, Actors
Influenced E

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