Title :
Reactive programming in Standard ML
Author :
Pucella, Riccardo R.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Reactive systems are systems that maintain an ongoing interaction with their environment, activated by receiving input events from the environment and producing output events in response. Modern programming languages designed to program such systems use a paradigm based on the notions of instants and activations. We describe a library for Standard ML that provides basic primitives for programming reactive systems. The library is a low level system upon which more sophisticated reactive behaviors can be built, which provides a convenient framework for prototyping extensions to existing reactive languages
Keywords :
functional languages; functional programming; software libraries; software prototyping; Standard ML; activations; input events; instants; low level system; output events; programming languages; reactive behavior; reactive languages; reactive programming; reactive systems; Computer languages; Delay effects; Keyboards; Libraries; Maintenance; Mice; Programming profession; Prototypes; Read only memory; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Languages, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8454-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCL.1998.674156