COM is today being replaced with DCOM ( or is it SCOM, I don't even try and keep up with the letters anymore), COM replaced OLE and OLE replaced DDE. We moved to pipes
at OLE. Pipes come from a unix background and things from that part of the computer industry seem a little more stable. And you know what, they have even remained stable
under NT.

If you want to stick with microsoft products then by all means use COM it is today's option, but don't expect long term usability.

If you intend to be in the computer industry for a long time I think I would be looking further, the industry is changing quickly. It is moving towards more stable
standards, the desktop is becoming less relevant, and at risk of starting a flame war, so are Microsoft's proprietary specifications ( their efforts even stretch the
definition of specification, they are not standards).

Regards
Charles Esson

SF Talk wrote:

> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:52:39 +0100
> From: ForthCAD <mail_at_forthcad.com>
> Subject: RE: Open a "COM-Forth" working group
>
> Gene,
>
> > Why do I think that it really opens a can of worms?
>
> COM is -quasi by definition- a subtle defensive system to not have can-of-worms. (Nice expression never used in French)
>
> I the past, I have had exactly the same reaction because the system _seems_ to be artificialy complicated.
>
> I think that the system is (a little bit) complex, but not complicated. And it is probably a shorter way to do what to do to not have can-of-worms.
>
> I think that today, disproving COM is the same as, in the past, refusing a word-processor to write a text (Sorry if, in my case, I use it to make big english faults).
>
> Charles
>
> ----------
> From: SF Talk
> Sent: jeudi 27 août 1998 13:05
> To: SF Talk
> Subject: Re: Open a "COM-Forth" working group
>
> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:46:10 +6
> From: "Gene LeFave" <gene_at_tekdata.com>
> Subject: Re: Open a "COM-Forth" working group
>
> > "...Implementing COM compatibility in your language run time isn't trivial,
> but the benefits are great: once you do, you open up a whole world of already
> written and debugged COM objects for your us
>
> Why do I think that it really opens a can of worms?
>
> Gene
>

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Received on Sun Apr 11 1999 - 21:33:49 PDT