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Yeah, let's do CORBA once again. No thanks.

• ayushgta 14y ago
  Oh Shit! Common Object Request Broker Architecture!! I'd thought all fellow humans from that era had been killed and buried :)
• stan_rogers 14y ago
  Well, it wouldn't be so bad if it were universal enough, but we'd probably have to wrap it in some sort of inter-ORB protocol for the internet or something...
  • mtts 14y ago
    Yes it would. Because making it universal enough makes it incredibly verbose and nasty to work with. JSON became popular because it was simpler than Web Services which became popular because it was simpler than CORBA which became popular because it was simpler than just talking over raw sockets using some sort of protocol ... oh, wait. Actually not having a "universal" spec helps: it forces every provider to give some thought to how to make his API as lean as possible. Hopefully.
• onlyup 14y ago
  What is COBRA?