Cobra Enhancement Proposal: Actors

[Charles]

A program with 1000s of actors would be a discrete event simulation of a real world system like traffic in a city or the elements of a manufacturing plant. OOP and actors were largely inspired by real word systems.

[todd.a]

Here are some links for actors in other languages

http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/parley/ python
http://code.google.com/p/classact/ python
http://doc.revactor.org/files/README.html ruby

and another .NET solution
http://code.google.com/p/retlang/

Turns out the .NET ones are hard to find because for whatever reason actor-oriented design is unpopular, but they are out there.

[Charles]

Btw neither webnov8 nor myself currently have time to implement actors for Cobra, so if you are interested in this, feel free to take the lead on it.