Data-driven programming

In computer programming, data-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the program statements describe the data to be matched and the processing required rather than defining a sequence of steps to be taken.^[1] Standard examples of data-driven languages are the text-processing languages sed and AWK,^[1] and the document transformation language XSLT, where the data is a sequence of lines in an input stream – these are thus also known as line-oriented languages – and pattern matching is primarily done via regular expressions or line numbers.

^ ^a ^b Stutz, Michael (September 19, 2006). "Get started with GAWK: AWK language fundamentals". developerWorks. IBM. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 2010-10-23. [AWK is] often called a data-driven language -- the program statements describe the input data to match and process rather than a sequence of program steps

[awk-1] Stutz, Michael (September 19, 2006). "Get started with GAWK: AWK language fundamentals". developerWorks. IBM. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 2010-10-23. [AWK is] often called a data-driven language -- the program statements describe the input data to match and process rather than a sequence of program steps

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