Actor Programming Language
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The Actor Programming Language, a Smalltalk-like language with C-like syntax, is discussed, with commenters sharing their experiences and observations about its development and demise.
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i-con
2 months ago
1 replyRelease date 1993
jhbadger
2 months ago
That's for the last version. It initially was for Windows 1.0 in 1987!
jhbadger
2 months ago
I remember this -- it was basically Smalltalk (complete with a class browser and image-based development) except they changed the syntax to make it look C-like -- like you would have calls like method(object); instead of "object method". As I recall it was never updated for Windows 95 or later and died.
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