election details *PLEASE READ*

Mark S. Miller markm at cs.jhu.edu
Sat Feb 24 00:50:40 UTC 2007


Cees de Groot wrote:
> Beyond that - modules, components, or what you want to call them. I'm
> a Jini adept, and I've seen the power of having a network of
> cooperating components work for you. I also like E a lot, and think
> that some sandboxing system is required to scale Squeak - we must
> clean up the kernel to make it fully capability-based (also something
> that Java got more right than most people assume).

More right, but not right. Fortunately, it's right enough to be fixable by a 
layer on top: <http://www.joe-e.org>. Likewise for OCaml 
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2006/HPL-2006-116.html>. I'd love to see 
Squeak evolve to support a similar level of secure cooperation.


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     Cheers,
     --MarkM



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