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> Directed acyclic graphs are muched discussed in comp-sci, but octopus appears to be the first reusable, turnkey, ready-to-wear, off-the-shelf implementation of a DAG for application development, in any language, that I'm aware of.

I may be misunderstanding what this is, but back in the J2EE days ISTR Struts having something very similar to this, ie a flow from page to page declared apart from the actual page logic itself. Edit: and all done in XML, so obviously doesn't count!

Cool project though!

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it's tempting to write a sh(1) based webapp that uses make(1) under the hood to provide similar functionality...