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#+title: The Actor Model

A design in [[id:1a74e6c8-023d-4a04-aae7-74d4428f6de5][Software Architecture]] in which [[id:6f95b295-d872-4ba6-affc-19b8ad5e4717][Isolated Processes]] work together as a
[[id:9de8fa16-17f9-4877-a24f-a0df7a88c53e][Distributed System]], coordinating via message passing. This is modeled similarly
to how interactions occur in nature.

This is remarkably similar to Alan Kay's initial concept of [[id:4c76e33c-b538-47ae-9138-9b54f3d68a34][Object-Oriented
Programming]].