<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div class="Ih2E3d" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><div>> I am curious how you believe this is difficult.<br></div><div><br></div></div>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). <div>
>From what I've seen so far, it really isn't that hard to program in OC languages.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><font color="#888888">-- Jimmy</font></div></div></span><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Kevin Reid <<a href="mailto:kpreid@mac.com">kpreid@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:28, Jimmy Wylie Jr. wrote:<br>
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> I was thinking about writing on the difficulty of switching to<br>
> object-capabilities coming from a primarily object-oriented<br>
> background.<br>
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</div>I am curious how you believe this is difficult.<br>
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> Another idea, I had, was looking into the feasibility of re-<br>
> implementing parts of the Windows API or Posix API using an object-<br>
> capability language like E.<br>
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</div>One of the old capability OSes (I can't find a reference right now)<br>
had such an emulation layer in order to be able to run POSIX programs.<br>
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Kevin Reid <<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/" target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/</a>><br>
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