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		senderista on Nov 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects” Sure, if functions are modeled as Actors. But I don't see the point of modeling the evaluation of a total mathematical function as asynchronous message passing (other than theoretical minimalism).

ProfHewitt on Nov 19, 2019 [–]

An Actor procedure need not be a mathematical function. For example, Random.[ ] could return a different result each time that it is invoked.

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