CORBA for Squeak

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Oct 18 14:59:04 UTC 2000


Johan Fabry <johan.fabry at vub.ac.be> wrote:
> However (there has to be a 'however' :-)) CORBA (in my opinion) is no
> fun. It is hard to learn (I teach some classes of our distributed
> systems course, including the CORBA classes, and it is a repeating
> pattern) and it is hard to use. Contrast Squeak, which is easy to learn,
> and easy to use. I suspect Squeak developers will want to avoid all the
> hassle (defining IDL's et cetera) of CORBA and yoyfully just code.
> 

On the other hand, it becomes much more fun when there's, say, this
awesome DSP infrastructure on your network.

Communication with other programming systems is a very nice thing. 
CORBA can't be more painful than not being able to do it at all!


-Lex





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