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Mixing Metaphors: Actors as Channels and Channels as Actors (Extended Version)
Simon Fowler, Sam Lindley, Philip Wadler
Channel- and actor-based programming languages are both used in practice, but the two are often confused. Languages such as Go provide anonymous processes which communicate using b…
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An Erlang Implementation of Multiparty Session Actors
Simon Fowler
By requiring co-ordination to take place using explicit message passing instead of relying on shared memory, actor-based programming languages have been shown to be effective tools…