[Mono-list] Features and advantages of .NET and Mono?

[Bob Smith]

Yes, but CORBA falls down in that the languages are almost imposible to
get inprocess, so there can be significant overhead involved. Plus, you
have to deal with IDL and skels/stubs. Everything's automatic and
inprocess with Mono.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Eric Lemings wrote:

> Bob Smith wrote:
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> > The one big one that got me hooked is the ability for any language to use
> > code from any other language. This will stop the code duplication. EX:
> > odbc for C/C++, jdbc for java, perls database api, python's db api, etc.
> > This should greatly accelerate development times, especially on the Open
> > Source front, since we wont have to reinvent the wheel for every single
> > language we want to use. Write a class once, and use it everywhere.
>
> Isn't that the whole purpose of CORBA?
>
> Eric.
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