Actor-Lab | Concepts

concepts


There are three key ideas to communicate to students starting to work with actor-lab:
the role of the programmer as playwright in actor-lab, developing scripts for a cast of actors.
the input => process => output model of control technology, i.e that the basic cycle of actor-lab involves real world events being transformed by the,
INPUTS and sent on as messages (or as a flow of data) to,	ACTORS which in turn create a flow of messages to each other and on to,	OUTPUTS that bring about real world events.

and that messages can ether be sent immediately or after some delay