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copied!<p>I honestly find your explanation and examples difficult to follow (<strong>update:</strong> your blog is much better and reading <a href="http://cplang.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/statement-ordering/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Statement Ordering</a> there I'm even more convinced that you are aiming at a form of <strong>dataflow programming</strong>).</p> <p>However, your final description:</p> <blockquote> <p>Everything stated in the language is "as is", and is continuously actively executed. This means; the programmer does not know in which order (unless explicitly stated using constructions) elements are, nor when statements are executed. The language is completely separated from the "time"-concept, i.e. it's continuously executed: saying that "a" is "b" and "b" is "a" is a simple loop-structure, for instance.</p> </blockquote> <p>.. induces me to think that the general term that you are searching for is <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow" rel="nofollow noreferrer">dataflow programming</a></strong> (even if loops are not permitted in the more simple instances of dataflow programming). Quoting from Wikipedia:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Dataflow</strong> is a software architecture based on the idea that changing the value of a variable should automatically force recalculation of the values of variables which depend on its value.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Reactive programming</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_reactive_programming" rel="nofollow noreferrer">functional reactive programming</a> are, <em>as <strong>I</strong> understand them</em>, variations on the same theme.</p> <p>Icon's goal-directed evaluation is more restricted in scope (see this <a href="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/intro.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A Brief Introduction to Icon</a>: <em>The backtracking implied by the goal-directed evaluation mechanism is limited to the expression in which it occurs</em>).</p> <p>See also this question on Stackoverflow: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/461796/dataflow-programming-languages">Dataflow Programming Languages</a>.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Pindatjuh asks in comments "<em>Can you also comment, whether this language is a new variation on the theme of dataflow?</em>". I think so, but the question is really about definitions and so about consensus. In a recent survey about dataflow languages, <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.99.7265" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Advances in dataflow programming languages</a> (published in <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1013209" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 36 , Issue 1, March 2004</a>), authors wrote (page 10):</p> <blockquote> <p>The best list of features that constitute a dataflow language was put forward by Ackerman [1982] and reiterated by Whiting and Pascoe [1994] and Wail and Abramson [1995]. This list includes the following:</p> <ol> <li>freedom from side effects,</li> <li>locality of effect,</li> <li>data dependencies equivalent to scheduling,</li> <li>single assignment of variables,</li> <li>an unusual notation for iterations due to features 1 and 4,</li> <li>lack of history sensitivity in procedures.</li> </ol> </blockquote> <p>I haven't read all your blog but just perused it lightly, so you are more qualified than me to judge about your programming language (which is a moving target anyway).</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> I unconsciously missed the word "new" in your question "<em>... this language is a <strong>new</strong> variation on...</em>". It is an hard task: one needs to consider all the dataflow languages invented until now and carefully examine their semantics in detail to spot a novelty in your approach. I surely haven't the necessary knowledge at this time.</p>

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