First of all, to the best of my knowledge, the goal of CORBA is distributed computing, i.e. the "program" doesn't really know where the objects are that make it up. I believe, in my ignorance, that there are other ways of doing this. I also don't know, at this point, how successful CORBA is. I do know that Java is an incredibly intuitive and forgiving environment that does many many things for you without a lot of effort.
Which brings me to Python. I have recently been working with regular expressions in Perl. I have a book that presents examples of regular expressions both in Perl and in Python. This is not a flame, but Python is just a wee bit on the, shall we say, rigid side compared to Perl...and I would say Java. Maybe that's good, but I would hate to force someone to program in Python, whereas I would feel very comfortable forcing someone to program in Java.
I hope that I have been sufficiently irrelevant to take people's minds off of more important matters.
John
On Nov 10, 2003, at 5:42 PM, Andrew Ho wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, David W. Forslund wrote: ...Both statements above are not true: 1) Zope can send back any kind of
file. 2) Web browsers know what to do with many non-HTML files (e.g. plain
text, gif, jpg, etc).
1) isn't what I said I said I invoked the object and that is what I observe it returns. How do I tell it to return something different?
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