[cap-talk] object-oriented-security.org

[Bill Frantz]

On 3/12/10 at 11:30 AM, kenton at google.com (Kenton Varda) wrote:

> And anyway, you can use OO design in non-OO languages.  And I think it's
> fair to say that using capability discipline in any language implies that
> you are using OO design, because as Marc's talk yesterday illustrated, they
> are really the same thing.

To support Kenton's statement, most of the code in the S/370 version of
KeyKOS was written in Assembler. There was also some code written in
PL/I. Neither of these languages are OO languages by any stretch of the
imagination. However, the interface to all the domain code written in
either of these languages could be mapped to method calls on objects.

Cheers - Bill

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