Mixing Metaphors: Actors as Channels and Channels as Actors (Extended Version) — mentioned by Zalastax

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:13:17 GMT

I find this resource confusing and annoying to read. When performing my thesis research I wasted a bunch of time trying to make sense of Hewitt's writing. I think a big problem is that the term "actor model" is so overloaded that it almost becomes meaningless. The actors that Hewitt is talking about is not at all the same as Erlang or Akka. As an example I consider this quote from the text nonsensical "Actor systems can perform computations that are impossible by Turing Machines" or of very little relevance to the actor models we use for programming. This has been discussed at [0]. For an…

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Mixing Metaphors: Actors as Channels and Channels as Actors (Extended Version) — mentioned by Zalastax