ARCTIC - Programmer's Manual and Tutorial.

• Main Authors: Rubine, Dean, Dannenberg, Roger
• Other Authors: CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Computer Programming and Software; *PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; *PROGRAMMING MANUALS; *PARALLEL PROCESSING; OVERLAP; REAL TIME; SEQUENCES; SPECIFICATIONS; TIME; TIME DEPENDENCE; Arctic programming language; WUAFWAL49760001; PE61101E; Arctic; arctic language
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA188619; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA188619

ARCTIC is a programming language for describing real-time systems with many concurrent activities. Unlike conventional languages that model concurrency as multiple sequential threads of control, ARCTIC models concurrency as multiple functions of time, whose domains may overlap. This radical departure from convention has many advantages, including a declarative programming style, implicit synchronization, convenient specification of timing relationships, and an integrated approach to event-driven and data-driven real-time computation. This document is a specification of the ARCTIC language. Examples have been included in the hope that this specification may be also used as a tutorial. Details of a preliminary implementation of ARCTIC are given in the appendix.