pesterer

n : a persistently annoying person [syn: {pest}, {blighter}, {cuss},

{gadfly}]

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].