From: beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith)
Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future?
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 17:01:01 GMT
Date: 1994-10-15T17:01:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Cxq4Lq.86B@ois.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CxoFyu.6wHx@hawnews.watson.ibm.com
John Barton (jjb@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: In article <Cxo19s.5MJ@ois.com>, beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith) writes:
: |> Bernie Thompson (bernie_thompson@bocaraton.ibm.com) wrote:
: |> : The judgements here are that use of anything other than C++ would be
: |> : rejected by the marketplace.
: |>
: |> You guys are going to miss the boat with this kind of thinking.
: |> Watch out. Your competition thinks Ada is a crucial technology
: |> and market. You've been warned.
: Hmm...I thought CORBA IDL was going to make all OO languages
: work together. Then the new OO world would be divided into Microsoft
: OLE and CORBA, not into SmallTalk, C++ and Ada, etc. By the way,
: how's the Ada/OLE binding coming along?
Yes. CORBA IDL holds the goal of transparent interoperability between
languages. However, there is not yet interoperability between all ORB
products. Thus, each ORB vendor must support your language of choice.
I was speaking in the context of IBM as an ORB vendor.
I think a lot more people will use Ada now that they _can_. As the
O/S's and products of the future define their interfaces in IDL,
the benefits of Ada's natural strengths are combined with a clean,
natural interface to GUI's, DBMS's, O/S's, etc.
Regarding Microsoft, actually OLE does not compete with CORBA, COM does.
An OLE interface could be defined with IDL. A IDL to Ada mapping
committee member mentioned to me that DEC and IONA had such products.
Thus, the Ada/OLE binding is not necessary. Any ORB vendors Ada/IDL
product would translate the OLE IDL into a usable Ada interface.
Microsoft made a presentation at the Dublin OMG meeting regarding the
interfacing of COM and CORBA. While they seemed to irritate a few folks
with their approach, I think most were pleased to see Microsoft actively
participate.
... Bill
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-23 15:55 Is C/C++ the future? Gregory Aharonian
1994-09-23 16:36 ` David Weller
1994-09-23 21:38 ` Bernie Thompson
1994-09-24 12:20 ` David Weller
1994-10-14 13:53 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-10-14 19:11 ` John Barton
1994-10-15 17:01 ` R. William Beckwith [this message]
1994-10-19 18:57 ` Brad Brahms
1994-10-21 11:56 ` James Hopper
1994-10-25 0:40 ` Robert Monical
1994-10-25 18:08 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-26 3:13 ` Richard Riehle
1994-10-25 19:36 ` Brad Brahms
1994-10-25 23:46 ` Michael M. Bishop
1994-10-26 2:09 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-26 9:21 ` David Emery
1994-10-27 1:52 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-10-27 20:52 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-27 23:23 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-10-28 19:00 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-28 9:14 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-11-01 4:25 ` Michael Feldman
1994-11-01 14:48 ` David M. Tannen
1994-11-01 23:46 ` AdaWorks
1994-11-02 4:29 ` Carlos Perez
1994-11-02 7:35 ` Dag Bruck
1994-11-05 0:03 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-26 3:47 ` Richard Riehle
1994-10-31 13:07 ` Fred McCall
1994-11-01 11:29 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-11-01 18:19 ` Richard Riehle
1994-11-02 2:16 ` Michael Feldman
1994-11-07 11:15 ` David Emery
1994-11-02 3:49 ` Is C/C++ the future? (LONG LONG POST) Greg Harvey
1994-11-07 11:20 ` David Emery
1994-11-08 3:07 ` Nathan Hand
1994-11-10 7:17 ` Vince Risi
[not found] ` <1994Oct30.210203.1863@muvms6>
1994-10-31 11:23 ` Is C/C++ the future? Marc Wachowitz
1994-10-31 19:02 ` Richard Riehle
1994-11-05 1:52 ` Bill Janssen
1994-10-21 12:32 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-09-27 13:51 ` Joseph Skinner
1994-09-28 23:47 ` Michael M. Bishop
1994-10-14 19:11 ` jjb
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1994-09-29 18:14 Carlos Perez
1994-10-13 15:41 Bob Wells #402
1994-11-11 10:33 (No Name)
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