Re: [fonc] Layering, Thinking and Computing

2013-04-10 Thread Tristan Slominski
I did not specify that there is only one bridge, nor that you finish processing a message from a bridge before we start processing another next. If you model the island as a single actor, you would fail to represent many of the non-deterministic interactions possible in the 'island as a set'

Re: [fonc] Layering, Thinking and Computing

2013-04-10 Thread David Barbour
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Tristan Slominski tristan.slomin...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's more of a pessimism about other models. [..] My non-pessimism about actors is linked to Wolfram's cellular automata turing machine [..] overwhelming consideration across all those hints is

[fonc] Statement of Posting on Fonc

2013-04-10 Thread John Pratt
It doesn't matter that I am inexperienced in the annals of computer science because the reason why I wrote on this mailing list in the first place is that I share a similar, albeit smaller, experience as Alan Kay setting the conceptual foundation for an industry and then watching people, ignorant