[Haskell-cafe] ANN: atom 2007.12

2007-12-03 Thread Tom Hawkins
Hello, Atom is a language embedded in Haskell for describing reactive software, primarily for realtime control applications. Based on conditional term rewriting, an atom description is composed of a set of state transition rules. The name atom comes from the atomic behavior of rules: if a rule

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: atom 2007.12

2007-12-03 Thread Alex Jacobson
This sounds like a really interesting piece of software. That being another significant use for the name Atom these days is as an identifier for a feed format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard) You may find it easier to advertise and romote this project with a more unique name.