[E-Lang] what is good about E?

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Marc Stiegler wrote:
> 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.

Probably not. The "Direct" in "DirectX" means that DirectX has direct
access to the hardware. There is not a lot you can do at that point
other than dynamic compilation to inject sandboxing code.

And even so, after you sandbox you're not really sure what the state of
the machine is for recovery purposes.

Jonathan