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From: garth!smryan@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Parallel Object Oriented Programming
Summary: Actors.
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Date: 30 May 88 12:25:32 GMT
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Some object-oriented-ish programming languages, referred to as Actor systems,
are specifically designed for parallel processing. There is a book on actors
by Agha which includes further references.

Whether actors are OOPS is debatable.

                      Hafa an godne daege.
                                   sm ryan