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If I am not mistaken, he is the researcher behind the actor model. He was also active on HN, I remember.
He is and he was: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ProfHewitt . Probably deserves the black bar?
a fmt(1)-ish filter, or perhaps simply manually folded. In conjunction
with the formal clarity he often expresses, they develop
a poetic, almost dreamlike quality.
Dang it, we lost 2 of the biggest champions of the Actor model, Carl and Joe a couple of years ago. Who is left to carry the torch to illuminate millions of developers who have no idea or have never heard of the Actor model? Sadly, we will see thousands or poorly thought out replacement models (eg. C++ futures, thread pools etc), which only offer a subset of Actor functionality instead of implementing the whole she-b…
Douglas Crockford.
My very first computer as an HP. My dad came home with one from CompUSA back in the mid-90s. I think this was shortly after Packard Bell rebranded themselves. I don't know what involvement Carl had with the company by that point in time, but he indirectly had an impact on me as it got me started in computers very early in life. RIP.
My very first computer as an HP. My dad came home with one from CompUSA back in the mid-90s. I think this was shortly after Packard Bell rebranded themselves. I don't know what involvement Carl had with the company by that point in time, but he indirectly had an impact on me as it got me started in computers very early in life. RIP.
are you thinking Hewlett not Hewitt ?
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He is and he was: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ProfHewitt . Probably deserves the black bar?
I love how many of these remarks seem to have been piped through a fmt(1)-ish filter, or perhaps simply manually folded. In conjunction with the formal clarity he often expresses, they develop a poetic, almost dreamlike quality.
Dang it, we lost 2 of the biggest champions of the Actor model, Carl and Joe a couple of years ago. Who is left to carry the torch to illuminate millions of developers who have no idea or have never heard of the Actor model? Sadly, we will see thousands or poorly thought out replacement models (eg. C++ futures, thread pools etc), which only offer a subset of Actor functionality instead of implementing the whole she-b…
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are you thinking Hewlett not Hewitt ?
That's odd, I'm having a Mandella Effect here, I thought the company name was Hewitt-Packard.
@dang, I move to show the black bar for this sad event. It has been almost a month, but it's the first mention on HN.