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by weehoo 1861 days ago
What is the invention? Honest question, not familiar with this stuff. Comments make it hard for non-experts to follow the discussion.
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tempodox 1861 days ago
Carl Hewitt's Actors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model

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ProfHewitt 1861 days ago
Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article (that I wrote many years ago) is way out of date :-(

See the following for Actors:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003

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jb1991 1861 days ago
With regards to Elm and some others, you have Functional reactive programming, reactive programming, Rx, it goes by a variety of names. It’s most famous for transforming UI development some 8? 10? years ago with the widespread adoption of React. But it’s been around longer in various forms. Implementations can widely vary but the general concepts are very similar.

Actors are something different.

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