Michael Schnell wrote:
On 03/21/2013 12:30 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
COM is Component Object Model and DCOM is Distributed Component Object
Model, developed by Microsoft. This only works on the Windows platform.
That is how the do ActiveX, and how Delphi does multi-tier support with
MIDAS (using DCOM).
That is exactly why I think the *language-concept* (here a thingy that
provides reference counting, auto-creation and auto-deletion of an
instance etc of a classes instance) should be described independently of
COM, DCOM, Axtive X, MIDAS and such things that are not related to the
language itself, while the language concept/syntax - being useful in
itself, anyway, can *additionally* be used to allow the programmer to
handle COM, DCOM, Axtive X, MIDAS and such things.
It's also interesting to be able to state unambiguously whether the use
of interfaces in a program pulls in any external libraries or attempts
any external communication.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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