Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> said:
>Unlike current Squeak, which was (and is) a pretty straightforward 
>upgrade of Xerox PARC Smalltalk to the 21st century, t-Time has a 
>number of mechanisms that have not to my knowledge been implemented 
>before, including some very subtle ways to constantly resychronize 
>processes that are running on thousands of machines of various types, 
>speeds, with various network delays and errors between them.
>
Might parts of this have been inspired by E? When I had a chance to chat with
Andreas, he brought this topic up - one of the things on my endless to-do list
is to see whether ideas from E can be transported to Smalltalk, but if this
project is doing this, I'll be happy to sit back and wait ;-)

(E is a language that is built up, from the ground up, on capability-based
security. It is extremely neat, especially the whole thing around dead-lock
avoiding promises for distributed programming, low-level things like the
language being unable to open a communication channel to another E machine
without doing a D-H handshake and subsequently encrypting it, etcetera. The
only thing that's not neat about E is that it sits on top of Java and has a
shitty development environment, so it's time to rob their ideas and transport
them to Squeak ;-). http://www.erights.org/, recommended if you're into doing
things with networks)

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