Re: "Welcome to Crypto World"

2000-08-01 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:39 PM 7/27/00 -0700, Tim May wrote: >At 12:01 PM -0700 7/27/00, petro wrote: >>Mr. May opined: >>And, interestingly, the Mojo Nation stuff was _not_ done in E. I believe the MN group found that Python offered the best available tradeoff of rapid prototyping, platform independence (Python w

Re: "Welcome to Crypto World"

2000-07-30 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 09:59 AM 7/27/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote: > A kind of language for generating complex protocols was something > Eric Hughes and I discussed at length before even holding the first > meeting of what became the Cypherpunks group. Such a language would not be very useful. We have a lot

Re: "Welcome to Crypto World"

2000-07-28 Thread Adam Back
Tim May writes: > This is the key question, no pun intended. A kind of language for > generating complex protocols was something Eric Hughes and I > discussed at length before even holding the first meeting of what > became the Cypherpunks group. SDL (Specification and Description Language) soun

Re: "Welcome to Crypto World"

2000-07-27 Thread Tim May
At 12:01 PM -0700 7/27/00, petro wrote: >Mr. May opined: >> > > There was a presentation at the Bay Area Cypherpunks meat >meet about "E", a capabilities based language. Is that along the >lines of what you are looking for? > > I can't find anything on the web, but searching for

"Welcome to Crypto World"

2000-07-27 Thread Tim May
This message below didn't get any discussion. Too bad. The issues were and are important ones. We talked about them more in the 1992-3 period, with a later flurry in 1995 (I remember, because I can picture myself in my new house, writing and reading such articles). Comments below. At 10:21