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by dekhn 1116 days ago
I'd have to think about this for a while but I'm not sure I see that as a distinction. if you have a skip conneciton, that's just another node in the graph you can have to execute topologically before your dependent node, and then pass the data. over the edge when the child node is ready to consume.

What you're describing with node-based message passing sounds much more like a petri net, or other agent-based discrete event modelling system. Which is another powerful mental paradigm, but challenging to reason about.

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"What you're describing with node-based message passing sounds much more like a petri net, or other agent-based discrete event modelling system."

It sounds like Smalltalk to me.