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Language peer sets for DDN:
United States↑
United States/1974↑
Designed 1974 ↑
1970s languages ↑
Fourth generation↑
High Cold War↑
Genus Single-assignment ↑
Experimental and other ↑
Single-assignment↑
Dataflow↑
State/flow ↑
Single-assignment/1974↑
Dataflow/1974↑
State/flow/1974↑
Single-assignment/United States↑
Dataflow/United States↑
State/flow/United States↑
Experimental and other ↑
Experimental and other/1974↑
Experimental and other/us ↑

DDN(ID:4492/dat007)

Data-Driven Nets 

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Country: United States
Designed 1974
Genus: Single-assignment
Sammet category: Experimental and other

Al Davis' experimental data-driven system for the Burroughs DDM#1 (Data-Driven Machine Number 1) developed at the niversity of Utah in 1977, but based on his PhD system SPL. Effectively a recursive assembler, based on Glushkov's principles, and influenced by the dataflow systems of Dennis and Rodriguez. (To fully understand the system in all its elegance, Davis's 1978 paper must be consulted)

The machine (and to a lesser extent, the language) were designed as a proof of concept to Burroughs, while Davis was attached to the Burroush ADSC

An extension of the language (GPL) ran on the DDM2, built a few years after by Burroughs and Davis
Related languages
Dennis dataflow → DDN   Influence
Glushkov R-algebra → DDN   Influence
Rodriguez dataflow → DDN   Influence
SPL → DDN   Based on
DDN → GPL   Augmentation of
References:
  • Davis, A. L., (1974) Davis, A. L., "Data Driven Nets - A class of maximally parallel, output-functional program schemata" Burroughs SRC Report,# San Diego (1974).
  • Davis, A. L., (1976) Davis, A. L., "An overview of Data-Driven Machine #1" Burroughs ASDO Report, San Diego (1976).
  • Davis, A. L. (1978) Davis, A. L. "The architecture and system method of DDM1: A recursively structured Data Driven Machine" Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Architecture pp210-215 Abstract Extract: Introduction Extract: Characteristics of the Machine Language
  • Davis, A. L, and Drongowski, P. J. (1980) Davis, A. L, and Drongowski, P. J. "Dataflow computers: A tutorial and survey," Tech. Rep. UUCS-80-109, Dep. Computer Science, Univ. of Utah, July 1980
  • Davis, A. L., and Lower, S. A. (1981) Davis, A. L., and Lower, S. A. "A sample management application program in a graphical data-driven programming language," in Proc. IEEE COMPCON 81 (Feb. 1981), IEEE, New York, pp. 162-165.
  • Whiting, Paul G. and Pascoe, Robert S. V. (1994) Whiting, Paul G. and Pascoe, Robert S. V. "A History of Data-Flow Languages" pp38-59 Extract:
          in (1994) Annals of the History of Computing 16(4) Winter 1994
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