Not quite but was close enough to get me on the right path! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_programming_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sy

Not quite but was close enough to get me on the right path! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_programming_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_programming_lang... Synchronous programming was the term I was thinking of: the concept of logical ticks being first-class in the programming language itself is what SleepSort reminded me of :)