Hey Dale, really interesting post, thanks for writing it up.
I've been experimenting implementing actor behaviors as Iteratees, is that something you've explored as well? Cheers, √ On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Dale Schumacher <[email protected]> wrote: > When Steele and Sussman wanted to explore Actors, they built an > evaluator in LISP. Their work eventually resulted in Scheme, which > moved us from dynamic to static/lexical scoping, but is _not_ an actor > language. Since then there has been ongoing confusion about the > relationship, if any, between Actors and Lambda Calculus. > > Kernel is a modern Scheme variant based on explicit, rather than > implicit evaluation. It is on this foundation, in about a page of > code, that I demonstrate how a simple Actor system can be implemented. > It is my hope that this show that Actors are not simply functions, > but rather are simple powerful building-blocks for managing > concurrency in the presence of mutable state. > > <http://www.dalnefre.com/wp/2012/02/implementing-actors-in-kernel/> > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc -- Viktor Klang Akka Tech Lead Typesafe - The software stack for applications that scale Twitter: @viktorklang _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
