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[Steve Holden]

In Samuel Falvo's defence, and without wishing to start a flame war,
might I point out that he specifically mentioned his news server didn't
show him the original article.  It might, therefore, be appropriate to
suggest that he misunderstood your points.  To read his post as an
attack
shows a thinness of skin which won't get you by in the average newsgroup
without daily psychological trauma.  Pythonistas are, in my limited
experience, rather more polite than most.  With the exception of one
particular group member, who can only be described as a complete
<wink>er.  But Tim appears to poke fun with a dry sense of humour
which, as a Yorkshireman, reminds me of home.  [You had COM? You
were lucky.  When I were a lad we had to pull objects out of the
labraries with our bare hands and shout at them to find out how they
worked.
Etc.]

I didn't read his post as attacking you, just expressing his (apparently
well-founded) opinions on Corba and COM.  The nicer parts about COM are
the ways it allows you to discover the interfaces of the objects you
want
to control.  The fact that it works so well with Python lends some
credibility to the assertion that it's one of Microsoft's better ideas.
That and, I would suggest, ODBC, which while not perfect has become a
de facto standard primarily due to its ubefulness and ubiquity.

regards
 Steve

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> In article <slrn87j11s.vc0.kc5tja at garnet.armored.net>, Samuel A. Falvo
> II <kc5tja at garnet.armored.net> writes
> ...
> 
> Don't get me wrong, but to attack me for saying I treat COM as too
> object oriented and then attack me for being an OO neophyte seems a bit
> silly. I'm from the fortran era, I treat COM objects as exactly that;
> blobs with interfaces, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate nice OO
> languages like Python. The reason I like Python is that it allows me to
> "just do stuff".
>