Re: Scala paper: Actors that Unify Threads and Events

As I recall from reading Philipp's early paper and the sense Erlang  
the language may have also possibly influenced his work on Scala  
Actors (?), would suggest taking a look at YAWS (Yet Another Web  
Server) done in an Erlang/Actor style with interesting performance  
and robustness characteristics or YXA which is a similarly  
implemented instance of SIP. Certainly, the 15+ years Ericsson has  
acquired using Erlang/OTP on their production ATM switches would also  
suggest that this is a well founded technique.. Equally one could  
back track to some of the material at the Erlang.org site..
/Terry

On 29-Jan-07, at 12:32 PM, Warren Henning wrote:

> On 1/29/07, Philipp Haller <philipp.haller@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Feedback is very welcome!
>
> What would help me the most in understanding actors is a practical
> example that clearly shows how the actor system can be used to create
> real-world massively scalable systems. What would be nice is a
> complete, realistic program, not too short but not too long, either,
> that I can compile and run involving something, say, network-related,
> that I can try out on my home machine and play around with.
>
> Apparently a tutorial of some kind is underway on the actors library
> and I eagerly await it.
>
> Warren Henning