Browsing by Subject "interactive systems"
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Coherent Reaction
(2009-06-12)Side effects are both the essence and bane of imperative programming. The programmer must carefully coordinate actions to manage their side effects upon each other. Such coordination is complex, error-prone, and fragile. ...
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Towards a Better Definition of Transactions
(1980-12-01)This paper builds on a technical report written by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker called "Actors and Continuous Functionals". What is called a "goal-oriented activity" in that paper will be referred to in this paper as a ...