[cap-talk] Terminology and soap box

Mark S. Miller markm at cs.jhu.edu
Thu Aug 10 12:56:07 EDT 2006


Karp, Alan H wrote:
> Ian G wrote:
>> Here's my soap box response:  capabilities is indistinguishable
>> from the concepts (not the practice) of object orientation.
> 
> I agree for object capabilities, but there are other possibilities,

I agree so far.

> e.g., c-lists.

Huh? All object-capability systems are c-list systems. (Though not all c-list 
systems are object-capability systems.)

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     --MarkM


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