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.NET integrates well with COM. You are using it all the time under the hood. COM was difficult because it was an OO framework that had to deal with: - C++ ABIs
by slededit 8y ago
.NET integrates well with COM. You are using it all the time under the hood. COM was difficult because it was an OO framework that had to deal with:
- C++ ABIs that changed on every compiler update but still had to work.
-Support for C and Assembly which had no OO support at all.
-Liteweight enough to run on a computer with 8MB of RAM total.
Given these constraints it's unlikely you would do any better.
- golemotron 8y agoWhy do you think I didn't respect the technology?
- slededit 8y agoI'm just providing a counterweight to the "horrific" description. It was and still is pretty bad if you can't use the modern wrappers. But it served an important purpose and wasn't really possible any other way.