The biological cell (was: Erlang)

Hans Nikolaus Beck HNBeck at t-online.de
Sat Nov 15 15:09:17 UTC 2003


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Hi,
Am 15.11.2003 um 16:01 schrieb Alan Kay:

> Thanks Marcus --
>
> These are both good observations.
>
> This is why I thought having objects be actively looking for messages 
> was a good idea, and I really agree with why Linda is a nice model 
> (perhaps having the matchers be associated with active objects is even 
> nicer). In the early implementations of ST there just didn't seem to 
> be enough computing power (and brain power in our heads) to make some 
> of the 60s ideas (e.g. Dave Fisher's notions about control structures 
> as transmuted to objects) work in a practical manner. Gelernter's 
> later Linda ideas are quite suggestive. David Reed's ideas in his 
> thesis and Croquet are also very suggestive of what more modern object 
> models might be like. BTW, they include the notion of continuous 
> rather than discrete time (as did the first Simula), and that 
> processes are really more like mathematical entities that are 
> approximated "behind the curtain".

Has anyone already described something like  'algebra of processes' on 
mathemtical level ?

greetings


Hans
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