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Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess... by ProfHewitt on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:59AM (#21857418)
The programming language Scheme was originally named Schemer against Actors ;-)

The monad (https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad) is another mostly unsuccessful lambda calculus way to try to address some of the issues resolved in the Actor Model.

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Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess... by agumonkey on Sunday December 22, 2019 @02:32PM (#21859117)
My english is failing me, what's the meaning behind 'schemers against actors' ?

I only knew about actors for its scheme influence and the fact that it was highly concurrent (even this I'm not so sure). I got into college way too late for it to be studied sadly.

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Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess... by ProfHewitt on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:12PM (#21860003)
The original name of the programming language Scheme was "Schemer", which was shortened by removing the last character because of file system limitations. The motivation for the name Schemer was that the authors were scheming against Actors analogous to the programming Conniver, where the authors were conniving against Planner.
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Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess... by agumonkey on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:31PM (#21860090)
Oh I see the trail goes deep. Interesting.
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