From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ELisp as a generic COM Client?
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:01:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F5656BF.5000500@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3f560b7b$1@news.seqnet.net
Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> Has anyone enhanced ELisp to make it a generic COM client? Perl has this
> feature and elisp seems like a good candidate?
Really? From http://grc.com/dcom/
The strange history of DCOM
Many years ago, Microsoft began modularizing Windows and their
Windows applications by breaking them into functional components
with well-defined, "version safe" interfaces. The idea was to
allow pieces of Windows and applications to inter-operate.
The name first given to this effort was "OLE", which stood for
Object Linking and Embedding. OLE suffered nearly terminal
birthing pains and developed a reputation for being a bad
idea. Undaunted, Microsoft renamed it COM for "Component Object
Model". This was still the same old OLE, but Microsoft appeared
to hope no one would notice. COM fared somewhat better, but it
wasn't until Microsoft gave it the sexy name "ActiveX", and
built it into virtually everything, that developers finally gave
up trying not to use it.
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-03 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-03 15:33 ELisp as a generic COM Client? Siegfried Heintze
2003-09-03 21:01 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-09-03 21:13 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-03 22:10 ` Peter Lee
2003-09-17 20:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
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