Python 2.0

[Peter A. Koren]

Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> ...snip

> Anyway, my point is that pervasive use of a technology like COM is a
> big plus for Windows.
> 
> Unix would gain a lot if it took that lesson, and implemented it in
> the way Unix does best (ie, implemented it *well*). Maybe CORBA is the
> way to do this, and maybe not. But it needs to be done.
> 
> On a similar point, Unix's biggest downside is that having so much
> choice at all levels (even the shell and window manager) tends to work
> against implementation of a common infrastructure like this. A pity,
> because the choice is my favourite thing in Unix...!
> 
> I repeat - I'm a Unix fan rather than a Windows. I just wish that Unix
> users would not be so anti-Windows that they miss the (occasional)
> good ideas.
> 

Take a look at the GNOME project. It is more than just a pretty desktop.
It may well be a unifying project for all of the Unix world, bringing
with it a component architecture based on CORBA as the main IPC
mechanism. The GNOME development environment is also designed to be
language neutral. You choose the development language.

The real success of Gnome will come when developers take advantage of
Corba to leverage the resources of others in their own
programs/components/pluggins.


Just my $0.02,

Peter Koren