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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
> 
> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
> UNIX.

Agree.  I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls.  And then I saw the GNOME
docs... ew!

> "KISS is tough" -- programmer Barbie.

;

-- Jamie
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