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Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2009 14:12:38 -0800
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:

> They solve the same class of problems, if you step back far enough.
> If your application's mechanism of dealing with processing is to use the
> namespace, then binding new functionality over old is roughly equivalent to
> a plugin mechanism.


I hate to be the one to bring this up but ... if you are providing
some extended (e.g.) math functionality to a program with a shared
library, people are going to be upset with you if you argue that it
can be done with RPC.

I hope the reason is obvious :-)

ron