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Maybe he should try writing it in Elixir instead of ActorScript?

• weatherlight 5y ago
  Hewitt argues that erlang/elixir/beam isn't the actor model because of how Erlang processes receive/process messages more here: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/lets-talkconcurrency-panel-discussion-with-sir-tony-hoare-joe-armstrong-and-carl-hewitt/ https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/lets-talkconcurrency-p... and here: https://codesync.global/media/almost-actors-comparing-pony-language-to-beam-languages-erlang-elixir/ https://codesync.global/media/almost-actors-comparing-pony-l...
  • ProfHewitt 5y ago
    Of course, Erlang can be accurately modeled using the theory of Actors. See discussion in Related Work section of the following article: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021 https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
    • weatherlight 5y ago
      Prof. Hewitt himself!
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