Distributed, Real-Time Programming on Commodity POSIX Systems: A Preliminary Report

We present an incipient implementation of a programming language that allows programming of real-time applications distributed over a network. We have several goals in mind: First, the language should be built on a sound semantics and offer support for model-based conformance testing. At the same time the language should place the normal programmer (who tends to shy away from exceedingly formal constructs) in a comfortable environment. Thirdly, programs written in this language should run on commodity systems, without relying on real-time support from the kernel. Finally, the language separates the code from timing restrictions, thus allowing for code re-use