actor and function

javascript_chat_actor_function

02:03 < Lajla> When they first made scheme, they had support for both functions and actors, and to their surprise they found 
               out that while they were doing it, the code for functions and actors turned out to be identical
02:03 < Mortchek> Heheh.
02:03 < Lajla> So they dropped actors and it eventually became the continuation passing style.
02:04 < Mortchek> So if we assume that any sort of value is an actor that accepts certain messages, and an actor passed a 
                  message yields another actor, then… everything is a function!
02:05 < Mortchek> We've just come back around to lambda calculus.
02:06 < Lajla> That's the general gist in fact of this revalation
02:07 < Lajla> that the actor model and lambda calculus are one and the same.
02:07 < Lajla> And can be described in terms of each other.
02:07 < Lajla> actor == function
02:07 < Lajla> It's an aesthetic style.