idhopper (12/09/82)
Despite all the items posted recently about object-oriented languages and so forth, I haven't seen anything about the Actor family of languages (e.g. Lieberman's ACT I). From what little I have seen of them, they have many object-oriented characteristics, but they differ from most of the languages mentioned in that they are intended to be used to model intelligent systems, not to serve as general purpose programming languages. Is there anyone out there with extensive experience with these languages? I would be interested in finding out just how these languages differ, both pragmatically and conceptually, from Smalltalk or Ada or "object-oriented" language X. What are their relative advantages/disadvantages? Where can I find out more about them? Thanks. --ravi