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ACTOR
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ACTOR
An earlier Windows object-oriented programming language for PCs developed by The Whitewater Group Inc., Evanston, IL.
1.(language)Actor - An object-oriented language for Microsoft Windows written by Charles Duff of the Whitewater Group ca. 1986. It has Pascal/C-like syntax. Uses a token-threaded interpreter. Early binding is an option.

["Actor Does More than Windows", E.R. Tello, Dr Dobb's J 13(1):114-125 (Jan 1988)].
2.(programming)actor - In object-oriented programming, an object which exists as a concurrent process.
3.(operating system)actor - In Chorus, the unit of resource allocation.


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