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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (355)12/1/1997 11:20:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 
Robert, COM is based on Visual Basic data types and the whole plan is to make Visual Basic the application development language of choice for Windows and COM is a major part of that. Having used C++ for 10 years and OLE technologies for about the same, I may have a slightly better insight into what COM is all about, not neccessarily, just probably. The simple fact is that this so-called language independent system requires an intermediate language of its own, all manner of tools and alien constructs must be added to C++ to get it to work, and its all but impossible and certainly totally impractical to use from C language. It's the lowest form of reuse, it's made programming more difficult instead of easier, it's impossible to pass objects between functions because there is no definition for that, and the list goes on and on. Robert, let me say that I honestly don't believe you really appreciate the fact that COM is really Microsoft's component architecture for Visual Basic which has evolved over the last decade into a horrible morass and it's still being rewritten. COM stands as a monument to poor design, lack of design and lack of forethought.

How about this Robert:

pulish class CXBitmap { ... your exposed interface }

Or how about this:

class CXBitmap
{
publish int GetWidth(); // only this member is exposed
}

That's what could have been done with C++ along with a truly interactive runtime GUI builder. Go look at CListCtrl or try to right justify a CEdit box. There isn't any doubt that Microsoft has abandoned C++ for Visual Basic.
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