pestered

adj : troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances;

"harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression";

"her poor pestered father had to endure her constant

interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly

teenager" [syn: {annoyed}, {harassed}, {harried}, {vexed}]

Esterel

A distributed language for synchronous interaction of

{real-time} systems with their environment. Uses explicit

timing requests. Esterel programs are compiled into finite

{automata}.

["The ESTEREL Programming Language and its Mathematical

Semantics", G. Berry & L. Cosserat, TR 327, INRIA, 1984].