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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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Here, dispensable host David Alan Grier and unnecessary judge David Foley oversee the proceedings as a series of comic actors are thrown into ridiculous costumes and are plunged, ostensibly unprepared, into comic vignettes with other actors in which the first line of the sketch is, invariably, "Thank God you're here.
s most talented comic actors, such as Martin Freeman (The Office), Jessica Stevenson (Bob and Rose), and Olivia Colman (Look Around You), this Christopher Guest-style improv comedy--"conceived" by director Debbie Isitt, as there was no script--can't decide what it wants to be.
Not to let Kelley have all the fun with music, those two wild and crazy comic actors Russell Dyball and Angie Riley, who form PotPie, are changing up their act for a Monday show at Sam's Place.
 
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