Article: Object-flow Programming - Merging Dataflow and Object-Oriented Programming

[Tomi_Maila]

I just posted an ExpressionFlow article:

Object-flow Programming - Merging Dataflow and Object-Oriented Programming

I guess you may find it interesting. If you like it, you should bookmark it with one of the social bookmarking tools (click the bookmark link next to the timeline image in the article). That may help us to get readers and comments from outside the LabVIEW community. And don't hesitate to participate the discussion. I'd love to hear you comments on the subject.

Tomi

[Tomi_Maila]

Some of you had commented this blog article but the comments never appeared on my blog. I've now resolved the issue (I hope). I was able to reconver the lost comments, so very interesting discussion is going on...

Sorry again for the inconvenience.

Tomi

[Tomi_Maila]

After having problems with spam block software malfunction, I was able recover the following comments to the EXPRESSIONFLOW article Object-flow Programming - Merging Dataflow and Object-Oriented Programming

Written by Zen:

Some combination of data-flow and object-oriented programming, I think, could make a great impact on sysytem development.  However, I see it in slightly different way than yours....

Written by Matt Holt:

I don't believe NI can get object-flow programming to move far enough into mainstream that Forbes would cover it. NI has a bit of a stranglehold on LabVIEW with it's price as compared to say… VS2005. It seems that by promoting it as "easy to use" that NI may have shot itself in the foot….

Written by Jim Kring:

Hi Tomi, In my opinion, LabVIEW's native object-oriented programming capabilities (LabVOOP) do not currently provide a complete tool for allowing us to implement our OOP system designs.  Nearly all of my system designs require distributed active objects by reference. I think that National Instruments certainly can evolve LabVIEW to address such requirements, but I think that it is not a real focus of NI....

If anybody else is missing their comments, I'm sorry I was unable to recover them. Please repost your comments, I appology for the inconvenience.