First of all, thanks, John, for the very encouraging reply. I am sure to try that!

My second question regards specific libraries for programming real-time (reactive, but not interactive) embedded systems: I've never tried it, but Functional Reactive Programming looks really yummy :-) Does anyone know any of the FRP framework packages available (data-driven, reactive, netwire, yampa, grapefruit, buster etc) and if they would work on jhc?

Ultimately, what I am looking for are nice replacements for Simulink dataflow diagrams and statecharts.