The actor model isn't a computation style itself so much as a concurrency discipline loosely resembling the style of message-passing OO (a la Smalltalk). It ap

The actor model isn't a computation style itself so much as a concurrency discipline loosely resembling the style of message-passing OO (a la Smalltalk). It appears that some people have become so zealously opposed to object orientation that they have been unable to realize that not everything is Java.