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Re: OOP vs Messaging (was Indigo on Wintel)

• Posted by euphoric <euphoric at cklester.com> Jan 28, 2004
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Mike Nelson wrote (some snippage occurred):

>The problem with OOP in inter-program communication is that you can't
>transmit an object as it exists in a program between programs...
>
>Microsoft's decision to use messages (in this case XML documents) is a sound
>one. It should avoid many problems that occur in DCOM, RMI, CORBA, etc.
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Mike, I'm glad you chimed in because of your expertise with OOP. All 
that is happening is that OOP programs will no longer "communicate with 
objects" (if they ever did) but with messages... right? And I agree that 
seems to be a good thing. :)

>Concluding that OOP is not a good tool because it works poorly in
>inter-program communication is like concluding that a hammer is no good for
>driving nails because it is useless for sawing boards.
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I wish I had time to devote to understand OOP enough to understand if I 
want to go that route... ;)

Thanks!

-ck