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What is the invention? Honest question, not familiar with this stuff. Comments make it hard for non-experts to follow the discussion.
by weehoo 5y ago
What is the invention? Honest question, not familiar with this stuff. Comments make it hard for non-experts to follow the discussion.
- tempodox 5y agoCarl Hewitt's Actors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
- ProfHewitt 5y agoUnfortunately, the Wikipedia article (that I wrote many years ago) is way out of date :-( See the following for Actors: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003 https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003
- jb1991 5y agoWith regards to Elm and some others, you have Functional reactive programming, reactive programming, Rx, it goes by a variety of names. It’s most famous for transforming UI development some 8? 10? years ago with the widespread adoption of React. But it’s been around longer in various forms. Implementations can widely vary but the general concepts are very similar. Actors are something different.