[vos-d] s5 concurrency (design part 2)

[Reed Hedges]

Peter Amstutz wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:16:16PM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote:
> 
>> There's also something called Flow-Based Programming that is similar. In
>> some ways it's closer to VOS since Actors are, I think, more like method
>> handlers (in VOS terminology). 
> 
> I don't agree.  Flow-based programming is very data-centric, in the 
> sense that it views the system as a connected chain of inputs and 
> outputs and black boxes doing transformations. 

OK. (You could use VOS easily to do flow based programming, I think 
there's a brief note about this in the wiki somewhere.)

I was under the impression that an Actor was a function that did just 
one thing? Or are there variations on the model?

Well, not important I guess.

Reed