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'''Actor''' is an object oriented | '''Actor''' is an object-oriented software development tool developed by the [[Whitewater Group]]. | ||
The Actor programming language is a mixture of Smalltalk, C, Pascal and FORTH. | |||
==Features== | |||
*Comments in PL/I-style (/* ... */) | |||
*Assignments in Pascal-style (:=) | |||
==Version== | ==Version== | ||
*1.0 (1987) | *1.0 (1987) | ||
*1.1 (1988) - new debugger | |||
*1.2 (1989) - supports EMS, Windows/286 2.1, Windows/386 2.1 | |||
*2.0 (1989) | *2.0 (1989) | ||
*3.0 (1990) | *3.0 (1990) | ||
*3.1 (Feb 1991) | |||
*4.0 (1991) | *4.0 (1991) | ||
*4.1 (1993) | *4.1 (1993) | ||
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*Zack Urlocker: ''Abstracting the User Interface'' - JOOP (Nov/Dec 1989) | *Zack Urlocker: ''Abstracting the User Interface'' - JOOP (Nov/Dec 1989) | ||
*Zack Urlocker: ''Breaking Technical Barriers in the 1990s'' - JOOP (Jan/Feb 1990) | *Zack Urlocker: ''Breaking Technical Barriers in the 1990s'' - JOOP (Jan/Feb 1990) | ||
*Chuck Duff; Bob Howard: ''Migration Patterns'' - BYTE (Oct 1990) | |||
*Ray Duncan: ''Power Programming: Actor: A Development Environment for Windows Applications'' - PC Magazine (21 Mar 1991) | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:05, 3 May 2023
Actor is an object-oriented software development tool developed by the Whitewater Group.
The Actor programming language is a mixture of Smalltalk, C, Pascal and FORTH.
Features
- Comments in PL/I-style (/* ... */)
- Assignments in Pascal-style (:=)
Version
- 1.0 (1987)
- 1.1 (1988) - new debugger
- 1.2 (1989) - supports EMS, Windows/286 2.1, Windows/386 2.1
- 2.0 (1989)
- 3.0 (1990)
- 3.1 (Feb 1991)
- 4.0 (1991)
- 4.1 (1993)
Actor Professional included the Whitewater Resource Toolkit and ObjectGraphics.
Publications
- Marty Franz: Object-Oriented Programming Featuring Actor - Scott Foresman 1989, ISBN 0-673-38641-4
- E.R. Tello: Actor Does More Than Windows - Dr. Dobb's Journal (Jan 1988)
- Jeff Duntemann: OOPs, I Stepped in Something GUI... - Dr. Dobb's Journal (Dec 1989)
- Zack Urlocker: Abstracting the User Interface - JOOP (Nov/Dec 1989)
- Zack Urlocker: Breaking Technical Barriers in the 1990s - JOOP (Jan/Feb 1990)
- Chuck Duff; Bob Howard: Migration Patterns - BYTE (Oct 1990)
- Ray Duncan: Power Programming: Actor: A Development Environment for Windows Applications - PC Magazine (21 Mar 1991)