He is not describing Actor Programming model. He describe his own model.
Message passing in Smalltalk predates Hewitts Actor Model and was used as inspiration. The messaging in Smalltalk is little different and IMHO better in many cases.
Message passing in Smalltalk predates Hewitts Actor Model and was used as inspiration. The messaging in Smalltalk is little different and IMHO better in many cases.
This quip by him from OOPSLA '97 is well-known:
I made up the term object oriented. And I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind..
A little less well-known are the words that immediately follow:
So, the important thing here is: I have many of the same feelings about Smalltalk
As for where he wants Smalltalk to go, that's what Squeak was for. He talked about it on plenty of occasions, at least one of which was also before OOPSLA, and actually did get a research team together to develop it out in the late 2000s: https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Papers_from_Viewpoints_Re...