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by bgribble 845 days ago
The graphical dataflow languages that are popular for music and audio programming (thinking Pure Data, Max/MSP, Reaktor etc) do this in a way that makes the value of "namelessness" a bit more clear. When you connect the output of one unit to the input of another unit, there's no need to name that linkage, but it's still perfectly clear what's flowing over it.

I really enjoy trying to think through programming problems in a dataflow style like this. It often turns the problem inside out in an interesting way. I did about half of this year's Advent of Code problems in such a system and it was a blast.
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Etheryte 845 days ago
Have you tried visual programming, e.g. Labview and the like?
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ssfrr 845 days ago
the languages listed (Pure Data, Max/MSP, Reaktor) are all visual languages where you connect up boxes with wires, similar to labview. I usually associate the term "Dataflow language" to refer to these types of languages, but I'm not actually sure if there are also text-based dataflow languages. Maybe Faust (which is also audio DSP focused)
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