For optimized performance on embedded devices, the language was designed as an explicitly, strongly and statically typed, asynchronous, event-driven programming language with object extensions and implicit error handling.
en.wikipedia.org It provides both continuous-time and event-driven modeling semantics, and so is suitable for analog, digital, and mixed analog/digital circuits.
en.wikipedia.org Events provide support for event-driven programming and is an implementation of the observer pattern.
en.wikipedia.org The firm launched its first fund in 2000 and today specializes in corporate credit, event-driven, real estate debt, equity, and equity-linked funds.
en.wikipedia.org A protothread is a memory-efficient programming abstraction that shares features of both multi-threading and event-driven programming to attain a low memory overhead of each protothread.
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