interacting with gui-based programs

[Alex Martelli]

Mike Meyer wrote:
   ...
> We're way off topic here. Building on top of the OS IPC mechanism is
> only half the story. I'm not familiar enough with COM/DOM/etc. to know
> whether or not it's built on a similar OS mechanism, or if that's what
> makes the ARexx better than it. However, CORBA is built on top of
> TCP/IP on Unix systems. What makes the ARexx better than CORBA is that
> ARexx was bundled with the OS, which helped drive applications vendors
> to support it.

Same for COM: the best thing about it is that just everybody more
or less HAS to support it.  Alas, you're right that anything of
the kind is very unlikely to emerge within Unix/Linux/BSD/etc: too
much fragmentation will reduce usefulness of any such technology.


Alex