RIP Carl Hewitt.
A mind that was never confined to a box. Always fresh, adventurous, and insightful, to the end.
Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
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#32Dang 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…
All Mac and iOS developers will eventually be exposed to it. Swift's concurrency support is based on the actor model and has a construct named "actor," which does what it says on the tin.
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#33This is a real loss. I learned a lot from him, ironically more from late night trips to Chinatown than formally in the lab. He had a wide ranging intellect that did not diminish with age.
It is a real loss, Gumby. Carl and I were friends and spent hours on the telephone solving the problems of the world.
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#34This is a real loss. I learned a lot from him, ironically more from late night trips to Chinatown than formally in the lab. He had a wide ranging intellect that did not diminish with age.
It is a real loss, Gumby. Carl and I were friends and spent hours on the telephone solving the problems of the world and playing polymath math. Hardly a day would go by without an hour or so chat with Carl.
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#35Sad news. I had the honor of participating in a workshop he organized on Inconsistency Robustness in 2011, that was an interesting gathering.
https://www.amazon.com/Inconsistency-Robustness-Studies-Logi...