[E-Lang] On the release of 0.8.10alpha1, a hearty thank you.

[Dan Moniz]

Everyone,

On the release of 0.8.10alpha1, the first version of E to have all 
the major features in E 1.0, I wanted to express a heartfelt thanks 
to everyone involved.

The effort has come a long way since I started paying attention in 
1999 and started posting to the list in September of that year (I 
have to thank Eric Watt Forste for first introducing to me to E in a 
side-discussion that arose out of an Albany Perl Mongers meeting that 
happened months earlier, where I had first met Eric) and I'd like to 
congratulate everyone who has helped E evolve to what it is today.

I've been lucky to have worked, to date, for two different companies 
which have encouraged my use of and experimentation with E in very 
exciting projects, one of which, OpenCola, gave me the financial and 
managerial resources to bring Mark Miller on board as a consultant 
and to hire Steve Jenson to be OpenCola's premier E research 
programmer. While all of us have since moved on to other ventures, 
it's my sincere hope and goal to bring not only that group back 
together, but a larger group of people who make E possible and who 
make capability-based security research and development an exciting 
field to be in right now.

I still believe, as I did in February 2001 when I added my name to 
the Statement of Consensus, that capability-based security has a lot 
to add to the domain of computing in many fields and walks of life, 
and can have a positive influence on computer, network, and 
information security at large. An effect that thus far has not yet 
been, to my mind, fully explored or fully realized. I like to think 
of the E cadre, of which all e-lang list members are part of, to be 
prime movers in that future. And while a lot of work undoubtedly 
still lays ahead of us, this development marks a significant turning 
point, and a marker of the larger fortunes that await.

Once again, thank you all.


-- 
Dan Moniz <dnm@pobox.com> [http://www.pobox.com/~dnm/]