Actor languages [was [E-Lang] E FAQ]

[Ken Kahn]

Henry Lieberman sent me this and assume he meant to go everyone else as
well.

Ken and E-people,

I didn't consider Act 1 a toy. It was interpreted, to be sure. and it ran in
a
truly distributed fashion, on the Ethernet of the time. If E is also
interpreted, I doubt it would run much faster than Act 1 relative to
its platform.
Maybe I should resurrect Act 1, the code probably can be made to run in
modern Common Lisp without too much difficulty!

In addition to Plasma and Uniform and Aki's implementations, there was
Jean-Pierre Briot's ActTalk [actors in Smalltalk]. As it happens, I'm in
Paris right now, writing you from Jean-Pierre's apartment. Also, Gul Agha
and his students have made several very interesting actor implementations
which
are still being used.

So I don't think it's fair to say that the ideas weren't implemented.

Henry Lieberman