[E-Lang] what is good about E?

[Marc Stiegler]

> SimCopter asked if I wanted to upgrade my DirectX, and I stupidly said
yes.
> It took me hours to get my machine back into usable shape.  Now I almost
> always say no to such requests, and I've found that the software works
just
> fine 90% of the time.  If it doesn't, I accept the upgrade and cross my
> fingers.

Well, the question wasn't a bad one, just the way it treated you if you
agreed to the terms :-)

The directX question raises some interesting questions in a capability
system, since if you upgrade from the SimCopter package, you are trusting
the SimCopter people in addition to the Microsoft folks wrt the integrity of
the directX being installed. The good news is, I think, that in a full-power
EROS-like system no directx installation could hose your whole system--it
should only be able to hose the users of DirectX, once again because of the
severely limited authorities conveyed to both directx and the installer app
putting it in.

--marcs