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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 versus CORBA?
Date: Mon,  1 Oct 2001 09:51:20 +0000
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This boils it down nicely.

-m

Andrew Simmons wrote:

> 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.