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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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Leonard's, Shoreditch, contains Christian names which appear to have been chosen with reference to the heroines of Shakespeare; and the record of burials bears the name of many an old actor of mark whose remains now lie within the churchyard.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
Probably the saying of Theodoras, the tragic actor, was not a bad one: That he would permit no one, not even the meanest actor, to go upon the stage before him, that he might first engage the ear of the audience.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
If one of them rendered lines containing the most subtile distinctions between right and wrong, the gallery was immediately aware if the actor meant wickedness, and denounced him accordingly.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context
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