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> … Erlang … inspired by the message passing semantics of Smalltalk. What makes you think that?

• goatlover 2y ago
  The Wikipedia entry says Smalltalk was one of it's influences and Joe Armstrong, co-developer of Erlang, mentions message passing as the fundamental aspect of OOP that Erlang gets right.
  • igouy 2y ago
    The Wikipedia "Influenced by Lisp, PLEX,[2] Prolog, Smalltalk" seems to be un-sourced ! > … Joe Armstrong … mentions message passing … Where?
  • igouy 2y ago
    Here's something Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis does reference in the context of message passing: "4.5 Programming Notations Based on Message Passing" p33 "Concepts and Notations for Concurrent Programming", Gregory R. Andrews and Fred B. Scheider, Computing Surveys 15(1) March 1983, pp 3 - 43 [pdf] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/publications/LangSurv.pdf https://www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/publications/LangSurv.pdf