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Absolutely! A reasonably decent example would be a hearts implementation: http://book.adama-platform.com/examples/hearts.html

There is also a very simple tutorial built around chat: http://book.adama-platform.com/tutorial/04-space.html shows a very minimal example.

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Live examples of running programs that users can interact with would go a long way to helping to make the examples concrete.

Were you inspired by the Actor model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model)? Or am I missing something fundamental?

Thanks!

I will definitely do that.

I connected with the Actor model when I found a comment by Carl Hewitt that everyone reinvents the actor model. Sadly, I can't seem to find that comment now. An Adama document is basically a durable actor that can only acknowledge messages.

I'm working on figuring out a way for Adama documents to generate notifications.

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