[e-lang] New E user

[Toby Murray]

An IRC eval bot is a /very/ cool way to show off E.

I've been vaguely aware of E for a little over 18 months now and had 
never known that
a) there was an E irc channel and
b) that this channel was a great way to experiment with E for the first 
time.

My 2c is that this should be publicised more widely. Also, is there the 
possibility to do a web-based interpreter? Perhaps a Java applet on 
erights.org. As you said on IRC

>[12:29] <kpreid> hey, if E *couldn't* support safe evaluation from  
>whoever, it would not be very good at its own principles :)

The applet could even just run a vat on the user's machine, perhaps. 
Although having a public interpreter available really does prove the 
confinement argument quite nicely. Similar to all the SELinux play 
machines around that have their root password published openly.

Kevin Reid wrote:

>Someone new showed up in Freenode #erights yesterday, and here's a  
>transcript so far.
>
>http://meme.b9.com/cview.html?channel=erights&date=060515
>http://meme.b9.com/cview.html?channel=erights&date=060516


<snipped IRC chat log>


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Toby Murray
Advanced Computer Capabilities Group
Information Networks Division
DSTO, Australia

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