1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates representing a data flow in a linguistic, non-graphical manner, the system comprising: a spreadsheet program embodied on a computer readable-storage medium, the spreadsheet program including a plurality of computer-executable components including: a receiving component that directly receives a linguistic, non-graphical, representation of a data flow structure, wherein the linguistic, non-graphical, representation of the data flow structure was not previously derived from any graphical representation of a data flow and wherein the linguistic, non-graphical, representation of the data flow structure includes a plurality of actions chained together in which outputs of one or more of the actions are bound as inputs to one or more of the other actions; and a data flow simulation processor that processes data in accordance with the plurality of chained-together actions of the linguistic, non-graphical, representation of the data flow structure by evaluating the linguistic, non-graphical, representation of the data flow structure.