Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just > > about any language that has ORBit bindings. > > Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated > as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME > codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with > UNIX.
Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs, compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME docs... ew!
> "KISS is tough" -- programmer Barbie.
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