[E-Lang] Electric Communities

[Mark S. Miller]

At 05:38 PM Saturday 9/15/01, Will Glozer wrote:
>Hi folks, I've been reading about the history of E and
>Electric Communities, or at least what information there is. 
>A pity such a fascinating project got canned.  Is anyone
>aware of similar projects currently in the works, or any
>interest in such?  Seems to me that a distributed and secure
>community would be a very handy thing to have.

I've heard rumblings on and off of interest in moving in that direction.  
But I haven't seen any indications anyone is prepared to mount the kind of 
all out frontal assault that it would still take.  I'd like to be wrong 
about this.  EC had a wonderful vision.


>On another note, is there any idea when a persistent version
>of E  will be available?

Funny you should mention that...  My next emails will announce the new 
0.8.10alpha1 release of E, which has a simple form of persistence we're 
calling "identity persistence".  More soon...


        Cheers,
        --MarkM