Newbie switching from TCL

[Brett g Porter]

"Alex Martelli" <alex at magenta.com> wrote in message
news:8o18no01svn at news1.newsguy.com...
> "Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:0k4seKAxmAp5EwR8 at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk...
> > In article <8o0scj01hch at news1.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli
> > <alex at magenta.com> writes
> In this specific case, there are reasonable justifications for
> some of the architecture's complexities.  COM, the main level
> of access to the system's functionalities, is not all-pervasive:
> in particular, it does not extend all the way down to the kernel
> and other very low-level subsystems, because those systems
> predate the invention and spread of COM architecture.

Actually, much of the WDM in Win2K and 98 depends on COM interfaces in the
kernel. But that doesn't invalidate anything else you said...

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