The actor model is a programming paradigm for adding concurrency to applications, which differs greatly from the much more commonplace thread model.

Information on the theory behind the model itself may be found at the Wikipedia entry for the actor model, as well as the Identify wiki entry for this project, which simplifies the background for the project as well as explains the rationale behind it and the objectives for the final system.

If you are a developer who is interested in helping out on this project, I'd love for you to get in contact with me at:

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You might as well check out a copy of the source code from SVN. The code is hugely commented, so it should be quite easy to get the swing of things. here's how to do it (because I know you can't be bothered to go to another page):

svn checkout http://classact.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ classact-read-only

I'm licensing all my code under the GNU Affero GPL v3. The reason why I'm using the Affero is that it covers network use, a feature which I hope to add in the future. Therefore, the Affero felt necessary (even if it's only for a morale boost).

There is no development roadmap for this project at the moment - it is purely experimental and seriously not recommended for anything resembling production use. It could kill your cat. And I'm not joking here.