From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Simmons Message-ID: <64055d11.0109231306.3709fd34@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <64055d11.0109181242.7ffbaafd@posting.google.com>, Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 versus CORBA? Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:51:48 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f1024e6e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.