From: clemensF <ino-waiting@...>
Date: 2000-07-04T18:00:36+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03799] Re: Ubiquitous Ruby

> Dave Thomas:

> In terms of security, I agree there are issues here, but not
> insurmountable ones. We'll need to involve crypto folks in this.

not neccessarily.  standard pgp-encryption would suffice, it's the
"trusted source" which could be a problem, in the face of mirroring
needs.

> Part of my interest in this is a longer-term idea. I'd like to see Ruby 
> as a dynamic, distributed programming language, running in net
> appliances as well as desktop machines. I'd like to see Ruby
> applications negotiate and broker services among themselves, providing 
> the first real implementation of the roaming agent technologies that
> have been hyped over the last few years. I honestly think the
> potential is there, but to realize it we need to keep the core of
> Ruby small and flexible (hence my 'do it in a library' posts).

did you check into limbo/inferno of bell-labs?  any oo-language fits into
the frame you envision, but limbo has processes talk via channels of simple
strong types like chars and ints, which scales well and is more concrete
than ruby in this.

clemens