Re: Programmatic and security models for IoT

On 1/21/15 at 3:37 AM, [email protected] (Tim Coote) wrote:

>So I have two questions:
>- Does E sound like it’s a reasonable starting point for a programming model?

I think E is THE right starting point for a programming model. 
Vat concurrency is robust and offers good protection from the 
problems of shared memory concurrency. Promises minimize the 
effect of latency on program execution speed. And capabilities 
are the best way to build a POLA (principle of least authority) environment.


>- What’s a reasonable starting implementation (I’m assuming 
>that E itself is not currently sufficiently robust, even if 
>it’s useful for didactic purposes - but I’m happy to be 
>told otherwise)?

The E on Java environment seems reasonably robust for 
experimenting and development. The slow Java start times are a 
pain. I don't think there is a good Vat Location Service, so 
that has to be worked around. I can let others talk about the E 
on common lisp, and I think there is another implementation as well.

Cheers - Bill

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