Actor model
The actor model is a mathematical model of concurrent computation whose universal primitive is the actor: an autonomous, isolated entity that owns private state and communicates with other actors only by…
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The actor model is a mathematical model of concurrent computation whose universal primitive is the actor: an autonomous, isolated entity that owns private state and communicates with other actors only by…
Common Lisp is the ANSI-standardized dialect of the Lisp family and was, from the late 1980s through the early 1990s, the dominant programming language of symbolic AI research.
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Scheme is a minimalist, multi-paradigm programming language and a dialect of Lisp, created in 1975 by Guy L. Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.