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To: Kal who wrote (9224)	4/21/1998 3:21:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 64865

The COM is Microsoft's Component Object Model which came which is just another re-hack of their dismal OLE experiment. We are talking about people who really did not have a fundamental grasp of object-oriented technology finally snapping out of their dream-like stupor a decade too late. The COM provides the lowest, least useful form of software reuse possible. The seat-of-the-pants, earn-while-u-learn design and implementation stands as a monument to ignorance in a sea of knowledge. It's bloated, brittle, needlessly complex, incoherent pile of crap. Microsoft has spent several hundreds of millions of development dollars trying to mask the underlying ugliness. It's an ugly morass of software spew and hurl loosely held together with chewing wire and bailing gum. COM serves only as a bad example. Take that vile morass and spread it around the enterprise, that's DCOM or Distributed COM. DCOM is an order of magnitude more hideous than COM. It serves only to prove that the outer extent of poorly designed software is far beyond human comprehension. BTW, I'm actually pretty cheerful when not thinking about how Microsoft has singlehandedly stifled the advancement of digital technology. Hell, I even think Bill Gates is a pretty decent guy but I'm sorry, these Windows APIs and COM just make me gag.