Re: [9fans] Plan 9 versus CORBA?

[Andrew Simmons <andrew@mbmnz.co.nz>]

Thanks to all who replied. I had always assumed that mr pike was of
Dutch extraction, and that "pike" was an anglicised version of
"pijkstra".

On the question of manual weight, I'm using "Advanced CORBA
Programming in C++" by Henning & Vinoski - it's not quite as heavy as
Stroustrup's special edition. It's an excellent book in many ways, but
I feel rather as if I was calculating planetary orbits with the aid of
a 1000 page manual on epicycles. There must be a better way.

I'll definitely try Plan 9 out, but may not be allowed to use it
because it is not Object Oriented and because the compiler doesn't
support const, both of which are Bad Things. This is completely off
topic, but I've just been looking at an OO implementation of a CRC
calculation. In the bad old days you'd just write a five line function
to do this. In the good new days, you declare a CRC class with at
least three constructors, a destructor, a copy constructor, an
assignment operator, a Calculate method, and then you make the
calculated value private because God forbid people should be allowed
to access it directly and then you need an accessor method, or why not
have several such as GetCRCAsFormattedString I think I'll go and lie
down now it must be time for my medication.