I&#x27;m a huge INRIA fan so I decided to play with Esterel a while back. If people call Haskell an &#x27;academic&#x27; language, I have no idea how an average person would describe Esterel. &quot;Thinking in&quot; Esterel is going to be a huge shift for the traditionally trained CS guy who&#x27;s never touched a circuit. Half the people in our field didn&#x27;t even go to go to school for CS[1]. Hell, I&#x27;ve got a decent amount of LabVIEW and Verilog experience, and even I have trouble with it.<p>That being said, it&#x27;s interesting and those resources are definitely going on the Kindle. Do you have a link to your thesis ? (Judging by your comment history, it has a high likelihood of being quality).<p>[1] Not to denigrate those who were less traditionally educated. The brightest engineer I know is a high-school drop-out. They however were motivated enough to read Sipser, Gunter, B Peirce, and all the standard texts (again, not as a requirement to read All The Fancy Books, but just to enrich his own mind for the sake of knowledge - without that curiosity, one might have a difficult time being more than a code-monkey (not that there&#x27;s anything wrong with that, but I personally have the scratch of &quot;how does this work&quot; that I need to keep on itching compulsively)).