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

[Peter Amstutz]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 08:13:19AM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote:

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

Yes, of course.  I think the actor model is much more general-purpose, 
at least in so far as it seems much simpler to describe flow-based 
programming using actors than to describe actors using flow-based 
programming.

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

Did you read the Wikipedia article?  An actor is an independent 
concurrent entity which can exchange messages with other actors, create 
new actors, and designate the behavior for each message received.

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