Re: Some of this, some of that, Idea's really.

[Redaelli Paolo <redaelli inc it>]

Il 25-Apr-98, Owen Taylor ha scritto:
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>Christian Scholz <ruebe@aachen.heimat.de> writes:
>> > and, just to remain in topic, Amiga as the Rexx language to do heavy
>> > interprocess communication.
>> Right, I miss that under Linux.. 
>> > How about Gnome? 
>> > How can I write (for example) a script that starts an http-robot,
download a
>> > page, parserize it and send some datas to other applications without
passing
>> > throught a file?
> I was thinking about it and I think the solution here should be not to
>> have one single language to do that but have stubs for all the languages
>> out there (like Python, Perl, guile, C, etc.)
>> 
>> So what's needed is a standard API with which apps can tell the system
>> which functions they understand and also which parameters are accepted
>> for each of them.
>> Maybe there should also be one common set of functions to call like
>> QUIT, HELP, etc.

>Hmmm. that sort of rings a bell... Doesn't that "CORBA" thing
>do something like that?  ;-)
... I don't know Corba very well, but from what I've read it seems to be
exceedingly complex. And complicated architectures are not Good Thing (tm). I
would like to propose an more simple implementation, following the KISS
priciple (Keep It Stupidly Simple.. or something like this 8-)


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