Authors: Bran Selic
Tags: 1999, conceptual modeling
Time is a tyrant. Unlike most other physical phenomena, we have no control over it—we cannot stop it, stretch it or shrink it to fit our needs. The most we can do is measure its progress. This relentless quality of time is one of the primary reasons why designing real-time software is often such a difficult task. By definition, timeliness is paramount to real-time software—a late response is sometimes worse than no response at all.Read the full paper here: https://cacm.acm.org/?mobile=false
