Actor Programming Languages
Henry Lieberman, Dan Theriault, et al. developed Act1, an Actor programming language. Subsequently for his masters thesis, Dan Theriault developed Act2. These early proof of concept languages were rather inefficient and not suitable for applications. In his doctoral dissertation, Ken Kahn developed Ani, which he used to develop several animations. Bill Kornfeld developed the Ether programming language for the Scientific Community Metaphor in his doctoral disseration. William Athas and Nanette Boden developed Cantor which is an Actor programming language for scientific computing. Jean-Pierre Briot developed means to extend Smalltalk 80 for Actor computations. Christine Tomlinson, Mark Scheevel, Greg Lavender, Greg Meredith, et al. at MCC developed an Actor programming language for InfoSleuth agents in Rosette.
Carl Hewitt, Beppe Attardi, and Henry Lieberman developed proposals for delegation in message passing. This gave rise to the so-called inheritance anomaly controversy in object-oriented concurrent programming languages .
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