Re: ORB?

[Pieter Schoenmakers <tiggr ics ele tue nl>]

   From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
   Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:50:06 -0500 (EST)

   Well, you can theoretically have Objective C++, but I've never seen a
   compiler for it :)

It exists, it is GPL, but too much of a pain to re-integrate into the main
gcc distribution.  It was developed by NeXT (their cc is a modified gcc),
was part of Nextstep and OpenStep/Mach, and is undoubtable currently being
maintained at Apple for use in Rhapsody.

   Let's not worry about ObjC for now, though - we just need a plain CORBA C
   ORB, the rest will come in time.

I have gained all my knowledge on CORBA from reading this mailing list, so
the next sentence could be plain wrong: doing a CORBA implementation for
Objective-C is almost infinitely easier than doing one for C, C++, or Java.
BTW, the same is true for a GUI framework.  For a view of my own efforts
on a portable GPL GUI framework, visit http://tom.ics.ele.tue.nl:8080/.
Volunteers are welcome :-)  --Tiggr