Re: Idle musings on doing E over again

I'm aware of SES, but my current interest is in server-server secure 
distributed processing design patterns where no browser is involved.  
Secure browsing is interesting to me as a user, but I'm not focused on 
UI as a developer except for integration of existing components.

If anyone *is* interested in extending Scala for capabilities, I'd like 
to hear about it.

Paul

On 20121001 18:38 , Kevin Reid wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2012, at 17:08, Paul E Baclace wrote:
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>> The ideas represented by E would have a bigger impact if they were embedded into a popular language, especially if that happens before major adoption of the host language occurs.
> The main idea represented by E, object-capability security, has been embedded into ECMAScript 5 (essentially JavaScript); with a relatively simple initialization library, known as SES (Secure ECMAScript), in a modern (sufficiently standards-conformant) browser, you can convert any web page's scripting environment into a capability system. Certainly it is not “before major adoption”, but Mark Miller feels that this is the most important direction currently for practical adoption.
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> I'm talking about / sketching out this new-E idea not because I think pushing caps-in-ES5 is not the right option, but because I think it is important to continue the research project that E has been, and because I like E itself as a language -- it just needs some tweaking.
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> (Also, working with SES is my day job, and this is for fun.)
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