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Can someone name a couple of those hundreds of attempts?
by stbn 10y ago
Can someone name a couple of those hundreds of attempts?
- CJefferson 10y agoMost languages try this at some point, Java claimed you could link all your code into Java and use OOP. Self-describing components in .NET Visual Basic 6's component method. Windows has had various of these, including ODE and COM. Obviously, any linux distribution, and plain old C linking, probably comes closest (although that tends not to be self-describing. Lots of RPC systems I would say fall into this list, just google for "self-describing RPC" to find a bunch of versions.
- _pmf_ 10y agoCORBA and WSDL/SOAP. Also, it's not quite correct to say that these failed. They did what they were supposed to do; they simply were not the magic bullet some proponents made them out to be.