It is fair to say that the implementation of Actors is still in its infancy. There is a startup in Silicon Valley that is attempting to remedy this situation. They are looking for expert programming language and run-time implementers ;-)
Older publications are obsolete and unfortunately many of them have errors (including my own!). I wrote the Wikipedia article on the Actor Model but am no longer allowed to update it :-(
Actors are very well defined up to a unique isomorphism by axioms.
The reason that Actors can perform computations that Turing Machines cannot is that the Turing Machine model left out message passing.
> "Older publications are obsolete and unfortunately many of them have errors (including my own!). I wrote the Wikipedia article on the Actor Model but am no longer allowed to update it :-("
As someone who's been interested in the Actor Model recently, thanks for this statement, and the link to the book you've provided.
Also, those who will be in London on November 9 can come to my Code Mesh Keynote. See https://plus.google.com/+CarlHewitt-StandardIoT/posts/BXSZ7Y...
It is fair to say that the implementation of Actors is still in its infancy. There is a startup in Silicon Valley that is attempting to remedy this situation. They are looking for expert programming language and run-time implementers ;-)
Older publications are obsolete and unfortunately many of them have errors (including my own!). I wrote the Wikipedia article on the Actor Model but am no longer allowed to update it :-(
Actors are very well defined up to a unique isomorphism by axioms.
The reason that Actors can perform computations that Turing Machines cannot is that the Turing Machine model left out message passing.