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		carlehewitt on Feb 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare,... The Actor Model is a formalization of what needs to be done for IoT and many-core computers. The ideas were circulating widely before work began on Erlang even if the engineers did not read the literature.

rdtsc on Feb 20, 2019 [–]

Thank you for clarifying.

I do like how the Actor Model and Erlang work arrived at the same concepts independently. It seems like an extra validation of the concept.

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