The New Programming

Abstract : The late C S E Phillips' unfinished paper is presented. The sequential mode of thinking that underpins conventional programming is cited as being unnecessary, over-complicated and impractical for all but the most trivial of problems. In New Programming, the flow of data is the only factor of importance. A new Computer is a non-sequential machine whose elemental processors are not required to execute their processes in an ordered sequence. Such a machine is easier to design and easier to prove correct than its sequential counterpart. Great Britain.