Interesting. If this becomes well accepted COM may have broken out of its MS jail.
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Stefano Lanzavecchia <s...@apl.it> wrote: > > I had heard about COM in Win8. > > > > Is it still being promoted as a development target? It's been tolerated > in .Net > > for ages but always prefaced with phrases like "legacy technology." > > COM's main drawback is that it has not caught on outside of Microsoft. > For > > those of us interested in portable programming that's a big negative. > > Well well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3957049/what-is-xpcom-xpcom-vs-com > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom/index.html > > COM, as a paradigm, lives and thrives. > -- > Stefano > > { "Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have > them." --- > P. J. O'Rourke } > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- John D. Baker bakerj...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
