At 09:15 PM 5/9/00 +1000, you wrote:
> > It's easy Dave, all that is needed is for one to have spent his/her
> years during
> > the RPC -> ORB revolution (with deaths such as ATLAS on the way) doing
> software
> > engineering! Ooops.....
> >
> > The Edwards/Orfali books aren't bad, despite the silly Martians all
> over the
> > place, but their technical content is quite good.
>
>I don't want to be rude, and I love to hold a book in my hands, but I
>believe that if you don't / can't publish a "standard" (or whatever) in a
>clearly understandable & complete form _online_ , you are lost.
>
>Nowadays, in these very fast developing times, I don't buy books any more
>to get known with a topic. I "learn" the basics on the net, and if I
>consider it worth knowing, I might shop for a book on this topic just for
>the pure joy of reading it in the bathtub (definitely beats taking the
>monitor to the spa). I know that most fellow developers do the same. There
>are exceptions, but they are very rare.
There are a lot of places on the web with good CORBA (distributed object
discussions). Go to http://www.cetus-links.org
and click on CORBA (or go directly to
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_corba.html) . There are a large number of
links there with tutorials, etc. (Including a link to our web pages at Los
Alamos!).
>Ivory tower programmers who still believe in papers and books as _primary_
>(or even unique) distribution channel of knowledge have lost contact to
>reality.
As most people know I use electronic documents primarily, but I find that
hard books and papers are still useful and complementary to what is
on-line. Each has there place and advantages.
Dave
>Horst
