The Actors model covers fewer programming patterns than Linda, but in a more complicated way.

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• Linda is a simpler, more powerful and more elegant model than any of these four alternatives (message-passing, concurrent objects, logic languages, functional).claim0.833
  The central thesis of the paper, stated explicitly in the introduction.
• The Linda model doesn't care how the multiple execution threads in a Linda program compute what they compute; it deals only with how these execution threads are created and organized into a coherent program.concept0.808
  Foundational principle: Linda's orthogonality to base language and computation model is its core strength.
• Linda Programming Modelconcept0.796
• Linda is a more practical and a more elegant alternative to concurrent logic programming.claim0.784
  Overall comparison conclusion against concurrent logic.
• Linda is a model of process creation and coordination that is orthogonal to the base language in which it’s embedded.quote0.775
  Load-bearing definition of Linda's relation to the base language.
• The Linda model-a swarm of active tuples surrounded by a cloud of passive ones-is suggestive in itself.claim0.765
  Comment on the conceptual elegance of the model, used in conclusion.
• The Linda code is insensitive to the number of clients, whereas Parlog requires a merge process that depends on the count.claim0.761
  Demonstrates flexibility advantage.
• Linda achieves scalable performance on distributed-memory machines.claim0.755
  Supported by reported speedup through 64 nodes on iPSC/2.