The New Programming

Abstract

The late C S E Phillips' unfinished paper is presented. The sequential mode of thinking that underpins conventional programming is cited as being unnecessary, over-complicated and impractical for all but the most trivial of problems. In New Programming, the flow of data is the only factor of importance. A new Computer is a non-sequential machine whose elemental processors are not required to execute their processes in an ordered sequence. Such a machine is easier to design and easier to prove correct than its sequential counterpart. Great Britain.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA212401

Entities

People

  • B. D. Bramson
  • C. S. Phillips

Organizations

  • Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Equations
  • Flow Network
  • Flow Rate
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Quadratic Equations
  • Structured Programming

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Regression Analysis.