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 | | A detailed comparison, with programming examples, is given in the book "Flow-Based Programming", but a key difference is that in FBP communication between components is via data chunks (IPs), whereas in what may be called "conventional OO" it is via an indirect call (through the class of the target). |
 | | This program comprises 38 asynchronous processes, 39 classes of data object (AMPS supported classes years before Object-Oriented Programming appeared on the scene), and 65 inter-process connections (note the ratio of connections to processes - this is not a highly-connected network). |
 | | In spite of this, until recently, computer programs were always based on the model of a sequential, "one step at a time", computer with a single instruction counter. |
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