[cap-talk] Undergraduate Research Thesis

[Kevin Reid]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:28, Jimmy Wylie Jr. wrote:

> I was thinking about writing on the difficulty of switching to  
> object-capabilities coming from a primarily object-oriented  
> background.

I am curious how you believe this is difficult.

> Another idea, I had, was looking into the feasibility of re- 
> implementing parts of the Windows API or Posix API using an object- 
> capability language like E.

One of the old capability OSes (I can't find a reference right now)  
had such an emulation layer in order to be able to run POSIX programs.

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>