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To: Scott McPeely who wrote (8491)3/27/1998 12:12:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
This is problematic when it is realized that OO is being replaced by componentized systems like COM, where all else but the interface is being separated out in the interest of the replaceable software part.

I think you've demonstrated quite adequately that you don't have the foggiest notion as to what in the hell you are talking about. COM is a procedural nightmare circa 1985 and Microsoft has been working on it tirelessly for all of that decade. They quite literally, let me repeat that: literally, did not have the foggiest notion of what object-oriented computing was all about, let alone distributed components. The technology fell flat on its face several times and after several rewrites and a barrage of hacks and afterthoughts the whole morass is still on the verge of collapse. It never got off the ground and today it could be considered a cheap extension of Visual Basic at best. I think it's rather telling that you hold COM in such high regard, almost as telling as Java coming out of nowhere to throttle it.

Do you think IBM, Sony, Motorola, HP and the others are capable of making an informed decision on which technology is superior: Java or the C grade high school project which COM represents? Really, I can only look on with amusement as Microsoft tries to re-invent Windows as an object-oriented, component based system. It's funny as hell.
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