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To: David R who wrote (7540)11/19/1997 10:15:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 10836
 
Here's the problem I have with your COM is great comments. Although it's technically possible, it's not economically practical to create COM classes that can deliver anything but the weakest form of software reuse. Can you build a COM class in C++ and then derive more specialized classes from it? Not with out spending a lot of time and performing a lot of code gymnastics. It's just not designed for inheritence and it's taken them a decade to make it usable at all. Now, if you are creating ActiveX controls and deriving specialized versions I would like to know about that, it just isn't practical. The other major problem is that you cannot pass objects between objects because you must maintain compatibility with Visual Basic and other would-be COM languages. You are taking a giant leap backward with COM in that respect. Unless you are telling me that you are using COM objects like remote C++ objects and I know that's impossible.

<INSERT LANGUAGE OF CHOICE, I MEAN VISUAL BASIC.

Sorry, but I want an object-oriented system not a decade old hack from some of the worst software designers in the known universe. There's no way this can be defended. Why is it that in 1997 we don't have spelling checkers or thesauri in the operating system? Why don't we have an INPUT BOX that can even do right justification or realtime filtering of input? Microsoft believes it can keep the lion's share of developments for its own applications and that, in any event, it doesn't need to use an OO approach since VB doesn't support that anyway.
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