fine grain

New Microsoft patent may put Linux security components at risk

Linux Today  Fri, 11/13/2009 - 06:34

The H Open: "Microsoft has been granted a patent on a privilege escalation system which appears to cover the functionality of PolicyKit, which is used for fine grain authorisation on Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and other Linux systems."


 

A-Z of Programming Languages: Erlang

Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Tue, 06/16/2009 - 08:46

The latest entry has Joe Armstrong discussing Erlang in the ongoing series of interviews with PL designers (The A-Z of Programming Languages).

Two related things caught my eye. The first is the obvious truism about language features: