[E-Lang] E FAQ

[Marc Stiegler]

I observer philosophically that the failure of Actors is now easy to
understand: no one ever actually implemented it! This is even more fatal as
a  language introduction strategy than is poor marketing, like Smalltalk :-)
Markm, it looks to me like you are making a dramatic contribution with E
after all, simply completing an actual working language is a fairly big leap
forward (well, some of us consider it a big leap forward, I realize that if
I were properly theoretical, actual implementation wouldn't count as
a worthy effort :-)

--marcs

> When I spent time on this about ten years ago, I never was able to find a
> good Actors language.. the authors always seemed to be interested in the
> next big idea and never had time to write down a complete language
> definition.