Re: The Joy of Java

Scott Brickner writes:

True. It's still lacking a couple of (non-language) features. The most important (and most cpunks relevant) is a mechanism to pay people to run programs for you. This sort of thing is dangerous without a safe environment.

You can do that safely without making it dangerous for your machine. I know how I would build a restricted execution environment for such markets. However, Java is 1) too slow, since if you are selling rendering cycles or such you don't want to be running an interpreter, 2) insufficently safe, and 3) paradoxically, insufficiently powerful for the sort of code you would want to run in such an environment. Perry