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An overview of actor languages

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 21, Issue 10

Pages 58 - 67

https://doi.org/10.1145/323648.323743

Published: 01 June 1986 Publication History

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An overview of actor languages
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 21, Issue 10

Oct. 1986

190 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/323648

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Richard L. Wexelblat

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OOPWORK '86: Proceedings of the 1986 SIGPLAN workshop on Object-oriented programming
June 1986
192 pages
ISBN:0897912055
DOI:10.1145/323779
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Brown Univ., Providence, RI
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Bruce Shriver
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

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