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- Karl Lehenbauer writes:
-
- > We are involved in some work on safe Tcl which will become part of
- > active email under MIME. [...]
- > It would be a good candidate, IMHO, for delivering active HTML messages
- > (i.e. programs) that can be executed safely, even though the sender
- > isn't trusted.
-
- Something I would like to see is libraries (I don't know if you have
- them or not). They could be specified through MIME, I guess, and
- would be a combination of ID and ``place to get them from if you don't
- already have them''. For instance, say I want interactive hypertext,
- I could use a set of libraries that have already been written and
- debugged, rather than including the same code in every single
- interactive hypertext document.
-
- This would lead to:
- -- standardisation of code (a Good Thing). C is intelligable
- because libc.a provides a common set of ground rules without
- which every program's source would bloat enormously.
- -- local copies of libraries, to avoid repetitive and time-consuming
- delays fetching libraries over a long-haul network for each
- document.
- -- quick boot-strapping. If a couple of useful libraries for text
- and interactive graphics were available, more users would be
- willing to start the gentle slope of the learning curve.
-
- Nat.
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-