A Simula I event notice (time, process) in the sequencing set is just a message step(process, time) in a priority mailbox; the two are the same mathematical object, making Simula's discrete-event active processes and message-passing active objects trivially isomorphic.
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[ 1.2 ms ] story [ 7.4 ms ] threadYOP is the mainstream in nowadays vibe coding for developers whose main job is click Yes.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879311 for who coined the term.
> before he developed Smalltalk
See https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386335 for who developed Smalltalk.
> The big idea [..] was messaging
A Simula I event notice (time, process) in the sequencing set is just a message step(process, time) in a priority mailbox; the two are the same mathematical object, making Simula's discrete-event active processes and message-passing active objects trivially isomorphic.