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" the vaporware "object-oriented operating system" concepts” COM is Windows and COM is about as purely object oriented as you can get. It's not vaporware.
by discreteevent 10y ago
" the vaporware "object-oriented operating system" concepts”
COM is Windows and COM is about as purely object oriented as you can get. It's not vaporware.
- DaiPlusPlus 10y agoCOM can be said to be overly complicated (at least not as bad a CORBA). I think WinMD is a step in the right direction, but both COM and WinMD are userland constructs and neither particularly pervade the OS (e.g. you can't pipe COM objects)