[E-Lang] what is good about E?

[Ken Kahn]

Jonathan wrote:

> 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.
>

It does give direct access to video, sound, and input devices but not to
disk drives, memory (except video and sound card memory), CPUs, network
cards, etc.

I've never heard of any software abusing this direct access (other than bugs
that cause crashes) and the benefits are large to serious gamers who get
higher performance games than would otherwise be possible. I guess DirectX
should be thought of as yet another bundle of capabilities that one could
grant.

Best,

-ken