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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk-80: The Language
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Piercarlo Grandi (pcg@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
: pcg> But there are other differences between message sending in actor
: pcg> systems and procedure calls in Smalltalk-80 that are far more
: pcg> important

That's fine.  But I like Smalltalk and don't have any objections to the 
way it works.  Please tell me if and why it matters that Smalltalk is not 
a real actor system.  Is this just an academic issue, or is there some 
real benefit we are missing out on because we are using Smalltalk, and 
not a real actor system instead.

Regards,

Carl
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