Reactive C: An extension of C to program reactive systems

1 April 1991

journal article
Published by Wiley in Software: Practice and Experience

Vol. 21 (4) , 401-428
https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380210406

Abstract

Reactive systems are interactive programs that react continuously to sequences of activations coming from the external world. Reactive programming leads to a new programming style where one programs in terms of reactions to activations and reasons in a logic of instants. This paper describes an extension of the C programming language called RC (for ‘Reactive C’) to program reactive systems. The language RC is described, then some programming examples are given to illustrate the reactive approach. The main RC notions come directly from the Esterel synchronous programming language. Finally, the Esterel and RC languages are compared.

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