Data Design vs Control Flow Design

Programming consists of, at least, 2 aspects:

1. data design
2. control flow design.

A PL for data design should contain no provisions for control flow.

A PL for control flow design should contain no provisions for data design, i.e. such languages should be data-less.¹²

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References

1. See S/SL in References, for an example of a dataless language. ↩

2. Handles to data have been used in various contexts. Handles allow moving data around, but do not allow definition of data structures. ↩