The synchronous languages 12 years later
Albert Benveniste, P. Caspi, Stephen A. Edwards, Nicolas Halbwachs, Paul Le Guernic, Robert de Simone · Proceedings of the IEEE · 2003
Twelve years ago, Proceedings of the IEEE devoted a special section to the synchronous languages. This paper discusses the improvements, difficulties, and successes that have occured with the synchronous languages since then. Today, synchronous languages have been established as a technology of choice for modeling, specifying, validating, and implementing real-time embedded applications. The paradigm of synchrony has emerged as an engineer-friendly design method based on mathematically sound tools.