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Conversational Context and Concurrency(github.com)
3 points by tonyg 10y ago|0 comments
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by tonyg 10y ago
It's almost as if programming languages should support integers, rather than just machine words. Or, put differently: Fixed-Width "Integers" Usually Harmful.
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by tonyg 10y ago
Do you think that, generally, if someone needs an app to do something they've just thought of, that there should exist some way for them to build it themselves? If not, why not? We will know the age of "personal computing" ha
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by tonyg 10y ago
Is it able to self-host?
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by tonyg 10y ago
You're right that CSP has been influential more generally, but it doesn't relate directly enough to the history of the actor model, which is the focus here. (Though you can see, in the first paper specifically about CSP from 1978,
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by tonyg 10y ago
Exactly. Data is necessary to make control flow decisions; the purely behavioural approach suffers infinite regress without some form of concrete data. I suspect that this problem was one of the reasons later actor languages came to include
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by tonyg 10y ago
You're quite right -- take a look at the original 1973 paper [1], "A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence". The "universal" there is intended to mean, among other things, a uniform actor mod
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History of Actors(eighty-twenty.org)
69 points by tonyg 10y ago|9 comments
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Extensible Double Dispatch for Racket(eighty-twenty.org)
2 points by tonyg 10y ago|0 comments
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Indentation-based Racket Syntax(github.com)
2 points by tonyg 10y ago|0 comments
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Tutorial: Using Racket’s FFI(prl.ccs.neu.edu)
3 points by tonyg 10y ago|0 comments
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“Hello world” in the BCPL language on the Xerox Alto simulator(righto.com)
91 points by tonyg 10y ago|59 comments
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Measuring GC Latencies in Haskell, OCaml, Racket(prl.ccs.neu.edu)
1 points by tonyg 10y ago|0 comments
494.
Our operating systems are incorrectly factored(eighty-twenty.org)
4 points by tonyg 10y ago|0 comments
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Celebrating Daemontools(blog.infinitenegativeutility.com)
6 points by tonyg 11y ago|1 comments
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On the Impending Crypto Monoculture(metzdowd.com)
322 points by tonyg 11y ago|124 comments
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TLS 1.2 Long-Term Support Profile(ietf.org)
4 points by tonyg 11y ago|0 comments
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A garbage collector is a refrigerator(home.pipeline.com)
2 points by tonyg 11y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript syntax extensions using Ohm(eighty-twenty.org)
2 points by tonyg 11y ago|0 comments
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by tonyg 11y ago
The garbage collector looks to be written in Nim: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/lib/system/gc.nim
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by tonyg 11y ago
That's roughly it. I was referring to a difference at the type system level, rather than the runtime level, though. Disjoint unions aka sum types (as seen in Haskell/ML etc) entail some runtime way of keeping track which side of t
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by tonyg 11y ago
They're both sums, but Pony (and e.g. Typed Racket) has unlabelled unions, while Haskell/ML have labelled unions. Pony's (X | None) is not like Haskell's Maybe X in that in Haskell, X could be unit, while in Pony tha
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by tonyg 11y ago
Propagators are closely related to CRDTs.
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Growing a Programmer(ccs.neu.edu)
65 points by tonyg 11y ago|6 comments
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by tonyg 11y ago
Echoes of this idea still persist in modern systems. For example, from http://uninformed.org/?v=1&a=1&t=txt discussing PowerPC OS X system calls: "An interesting feature of Mac OS X is that a successful system
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by tonyg 11y ago
I'm confused by the claim that "Erlang’s RPC library supports multiple node distribution, but the Erlang VM does not support automatic load balancing." Erlang's VM definitely runs each node on as many cores as are availa
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by tonyg 11y ago
If I understood the article correctly, the ~1ms cost came from having rsyslog running, not from printk. Killing rsyslog led to a ~1ms speedup, but it was removing printk() that led to the rest. Printing to the console on the RPi could invol
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Introducing the phone-directory certificate(metzdowd.com)
1 points by tonyg 11y ago|0 comments
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GRPC.io is interestingly different from CORBA(eighty-twenty.org)
39 points by tonyg 11y ago|32 comments
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by tonyg 11y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by "data dependency" and "cells-like behaviour" in this context? I'm afraid I'm drawing a blank on the terminology.

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