Re: Quetions about Actor model of Computation.

[Minglei Zhang]

thanks Ted gives a quick reply. I will see it you mentioned.

Best Regards.

2016-03-08 23:26 GMT+08:00 Ted Yu :

> This seems related:
>
> the second paragraph under Implementation and theory
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_programming)
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Minglei Zhang 
> wrote:
>
>> hello, experts.
>>
>> I am a student. and recently, I read a paper about *Actor Model of
>> Computation:Scalable Robust Information System*. In the paper I am
>> trying to understand it's concept. But with the following sentence makes me
>> confusing.
>>
>> # Messages are the unit of communication *1*
>>
>> Reference to *1*
>>
>> All physically computable functions can be implemented using the lambda
>> calculus. It is a consequence of the Actor Model that* there are some
>> computations that cannot be implemented in the lambda calculus*.
>>
>> *My question*, What are there computations that cannot be implemented in
>> Lambda calculus ?
>>
>> thanks.
>> Minglei.
>>
>
>

Re: Quetions about Actor model of Computation.

[Ted Yu]

This seems related:

the second paragraph under Implementation and theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_programming)

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Minglei Zhang  wrote:

> hello, experts.
>
> I am a student. and recently, I read a paper about *Actor Model of
> Computation:Scalable Robust Information System*. In the paper I am trying
> to understand it's concept. But with the following sentence makes me
> confusing.
>
> # Messages are the unit of communication *1*
>
> Reference to *1*
>
> All physically computable functions can be implemented using the lambda
> calculus. It is a consequence of the Actor Model that* there are some
> computations that cannot be implemented in the lambda calculus*.
>
> *My question*, What are there computations that cannot be implemented in
> Lambda calculus ?
>
> thanks.
> Minglei.
>