Re: [gtk-list] CORBA (was: Re: New key-binding system)

[nelson-gtk crynwr com]

Steve Hosgood writes:
 > Russ Nelson writes:
 > > CORBA.  It's the only way.
 > 
 > The only way to get a simple "hello world" program to need 4Mb to run.
 > 
 > CORBA: nice idea, but does the acronym stand for:
 >    "Consistently Outputs Ridiculously Bloated Applications"? :-)

You're confusing the concept with the implementation.  Maybe there's
something in the CORBA definition which makes all implementations
bloated.  If so, that's good reason to be non-CORBA-compatible.  But
the idea is that every program which runs on your system provides
functionality that becomes available to every other program.  So you
have a scripting language which stuffs all that functionality under a
GUI.

Yes, it's a different concept, but it's a good concept.

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