From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 10 10:31:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D4C37B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:31:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15K1ME-000HUR-00; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:31:34 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6AHVXt54715; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:31:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:31:33 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Alexander Langer Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: analog to COM? Message-ID: <20010710183133.A54494@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010710180245.A54339@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010710190744.E65998@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010710190744.E65998@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>; from alex@big.endian.de on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:07:44PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:07:44PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: | Thus spake j mckitrick (jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org): | | > Does BSD (or Unix in general) have anything comparable to COM, with | > components, immutable interfaces, and the like? | | www.corba.org, maybe? Hmm. Isn't corba slow? I thought maybe there was a vtable oriented dynamic linking method for components. | It existed long before Microsoft had to cook their own soup[1] again. | | Alex | | [1] I first accidentally wrote "soap". I think that would have | described it even more accurately :-) So are they eating their own dogfood, cooking their own soup, or making their own soap? ;-) Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message