Re: Event based language, does it exist?

Around 13 years ago there was a small UK based company, called ASA
that had developed a language called AUTO-G that was based on
SDL. They took on a bit too much, instead of just building a nice
compiler for it, it came with a graphical editor ( this was 1988 my
friends) and several other tools. Needless to say that it was too
big. Our 3B2 with 8Mb (yes....) could not handle it with 10
users. There were also too many bugs. We had to stop it.


But, we still liked the idea of an event driven environment, so we
built in 4 weeks a pre compiler that generated C code, using a tool
called META-TOOL. And we could send messages, receive them, create
timers, expire them etc.. The processes had states in which they could
receive certain messages. If the message was not expected, it was
discarded, unless you were in a substate. Basically, it did all the
things an event driven language should do.


Peter Stevens


Martin von Loewis wrote:


> > Per Olesen wrote:
> > > I'm trying to find a language which is based solely on events, but I
> > > do not know if it exists. What I do know is, that there is a whole lot
> > > of languages out there, so it should be strange if there isn't an
> > > event based one :-)


> The ITU Specification and Description Language (SDL) is such a
> language. It is used in telecommunication standardization and protocol
> development, and asynchronous communication is built into the language.

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