What is the purpose of this post? To argue the academic definition of channels and actors? To spark a discussion on their uses and benefits?
The point of this post is to point out that channels are best understood as Actors that take put and get messages thereby achieving a unification in our programming languages and conceptual framework.
Of course, a channel can be conceived as a "living entity" and an Actor can be used as a "transit mechanism."
We can't have issues with channels if we're all actors and don't impedance mismatch the mixture when building our systems.
However, lists {T*] of type T are very important; especially when they are used with Futures.
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