[cap-talk] Undergraduate Research Thesis

[Jimmy Wylie Jr.]

> I am curious how you believe this is difficult.

Difficulty is incorrect word choice.  I realized that after I sent the
email.  I guess more appropriately, I should say, "writing on the experience
of switching..." or even "level of ease" (I guess the original idea was
"level of difficulty" with that level being very low).  From what I've seen
so far, it really isn't that hard to program in OC languages.

-- Jimmy



On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com> wrote:

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