Re: Is Smart Eiffel ready for large-scale application ?

Hi Hendrik,

On 13 Apr, 2005, at 15:22, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:01:08PM +0100, Joseph Kiniry wrote:
>> Are you working as part of a research team, or are you working on 
>> these
>> (very lofty) goals on your own.
>>
>> Joe
>
> Mostly on my own.  I have some collaborators, but they provide moral
> support and advice rather than components.  They seem more interested
> in using the completed system (if and when) for secure networked
> distributed computing.  For me it's a long-term thing.  I find
> myself returning to it whenever more immediately useful things allow.

There are a number of groups around the world doing research in this 
domain; perhaps you should collaborate with them?

> I want to accomplish a proof of concept.  Once it works and is found 
> useful,
> it will always be possible to find energy to improve it.

Most folks think that such a system requires several man-years of 
effort.  Collaboration is key to getting anything done, in my opinion.

Joe
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Joseph R. Kiniry
Dept. of Computer Science, University College Dublin
http://secure.ucd.ie/