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Actors are a popular way to write concurrent & distributed programs. Immutable messages are passed between actors which do the required processing, avoiding the difficulties inherent in sharing data among threads/processes.
Tuplespaces (best exemplified in current times by JavaSpaces) are a way to decouple cooperating processes by using pattern-matching to share immutable and persistent data objects.
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