Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Daan Leijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Allthough we have made a binding now for COM, it would indeed be great if we could also have a CORBA binding; it is of vital importance that Haskell can talk with the outside world and the more languages it knows, the better :-) Since there is a

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: [snip] Although, you continue with Ideally, it should be possible to substitute COM for any other component technology. Experience may prove otherwise, but implementing an interface to one component technology is a non-trivial amount of work,

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennart Augustsson writes: I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it means that they are rather useless to me. I agree! Mud sticks, so may I suggest you actually