CCastle Notes

My ambition:

Castle: ‘The best Real-Time/Embedded/Technical/System language, EVER’

—ALbert Mietus

It’s also the first programming-language that support CC [1]. Where CC is kind of of the successor of OO: active ‘things’ that communicate (solely) by input and output ports …
(Yes, I know, ambition and reality are not always aligned…)

Castle2

CCastle2 is the second attempt, and the successor of CC-Castle, a project that is stalled and stopped.

It incorporates moderen SW-Enginering concepts as DSL/MDE (Model-based development); where the domain is Technical and/or Embedded-Systems. It focuses on high quality ‘always on’ and/or flawless systems; including real-time systems, kernel-drivers, compilers, etc. It also expects and support both low-end (“cheap”) SoC (System-on-Chip) systems, and CPU’s with many, many cores (hundreds to thousands!).

DocIdeas

This section contains a set of pages & blog-post on this topic. Some a design-studies, some explain how to use the language, some are … just notes.

‘One day’ the pages will be incorporated into the (docs of, the source of) CCastle2

• Using CC & Castle
  • Compiler Compiler
  • FSMs are needed
  • Keep those cores busy!
  • Workshop Tools
  • TODO (Usage)
• Analyse & Evaluation
  • Grammar is code
  • No inline actions
  • FSM syntax, an evaluation
  • FSMs vs Grammars
  • Concurrent Computing Concepts
• Design
  • Language Design
  • Designing the Workshop Tools
  • TODO (Design)
• Blog on various CCastle topics
  • Heisenbugs
  • The Sieve demo (start/DRAFT)

See also

The Drafts page for the drafts (all, including Castle ones)

Needs (index)

ID	Title	Incoming	Outgoing	Type
RC_Agnostic_Concurrency	Castle is agnostic to the implementation details of concurrency		U_ManyCore	resolution
R_GrammarCallables	In Castle each rule act as a callable		U_Grammars	resolution
RG_NoInlineActions	Castle Grammars should not need “inline-actions”			resolution
R_CCC-Actors	Castle will use Actors as the main Concurrent Computing Concept		U_ManyCore	resolution
Tools_No_MultipleInheritance-in-1compiler	No MI in first compilers			resolution
U_Grammars	Castle has build-in grammar support	R_GrammarCallables		use
U_FSM_Syntax	Castle has generic FSM syntax build-in	U_FSM_extensions		use
U_FSM_extensions	Castle supports NFA_ and UML-FSM_ extensions		U_FSM_Syntax	use
U_ManyCore	In Castle is easy to use thousands of cores	RC_Agnostic_Concurrency; R_CCC-Actors		use
U_Tools_EventOrder	Simulate & Verify all possible event-orders			use

Note

Old plantUML-version on RTD

Some UML-diagrams are shown in this section, which are defied by plantUML. However, ReadTheDocs currently support only an old version (1.2017.15; 2017). which has no theme and other support to make it more nice-looking. Therefore all those “lines” are comment out (or rewritten)

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Footnotes

Caution

[1]

CC can stand for many things; I haven’t decided which one is the official one ….
Candidates are:

• Connected Components

• Concurrent Components

• Connected & Concurrent

• Concurrent Connections

• …

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