[E-Lang] E FAQ

[Dan Moniz]

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>>Is there anything on actors languages online, such as a history or
>>overview?  And/or can you suggest a canonical reference that I might
>>find at an MIT library?  I have a Plasma Primer (unpublished;
>>photocopied from Sussman's personal copy), and I know about Gul Agha's
>>book on Act II and the references in Henry's "Lieberary" (none
>>available online), but "actors" always seems like a moving target and
>>I don't know the best place to look for details.
>
>I scoured what resources I could think of a while back, primarily 
>CiteSeer <http://www.researchindex.com/>, MIT FTP sites, the Web at 
>large, etc. Desperation led me to send the following to Hewitt 
><hewitt@ai.mit.edu> not too long ago:

A thousand apologies, I missed this the first time: 
<http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/> was lingering in my bookmarks. While not a 
canonical reference, it has some interesting jumping off points on 
Actors and what Agha and his team are doing with them now. SALSA 
(mentioned towards the bottom of the page at that link) looks 
particularly interesting.


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Dan Moniz <dnm@pobox.com> [http://www.pobox.com/~dnm/]