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Comment Re:Does anyone remember (Score 1) 12

Gnome's Bonobo was basically an OLE2's clone using CORBA instead of COM.

Bonobo specifies a number of such contracts, or interfaces, as they are usually called. The Bonobo interfaces were inspired by Microsoft's OLE2 [3]. Microsoft uses OLE2 for interconnecting components in the Windows-environment. Bonobo is not an implementation of OLE2, however. Many of the design decision that went into OLE2 were re-evaluated, and all Windows-specific parts had to be adapted for Unix and the X Window System. And importantly, while OLE2 is based on Microsoft's proprietary Component Object Model (COM) [2] as the underlying communications layer, Bonobo uses the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) [9] instead.

One of the cool parts was the components were network transparent so you could have in a document a component running in your desktop alongside another one running in another continent. CORBA was ultimately replaced by DBus which was inspired by KDE's DCOP.

Comment Let's compare with other fields (Score 1) 175

You want to be a car mechanic but instead of using car engines in the classes they use engines from oil rigs or some other shit. Sure, the basics should be the same and the experience somewhat valuable but I would consider that a monumental waste of time. Unless you convince me that Racket is much better than Python for that task.

Comment Don't be fooled, this is plain censorship (Score 2) 97

The most corrupt government in Spain's history. They are attacking the judges because they are investigating members or ex-members pf the government. The prime minister's wife and brother are being investigating. They are continually accusing the press of lying about things that are later proven to be true.They are continually lying and spreading false news about the opposition and those who criticize them. What they want is for only their "truth" to be spread.

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