| From: | tim |
| Date: | 2 May 2000 at 18:06:40 |
| Subject: | Re: Basic or C |
Hi Don
> Samuel Falvo, who is expert on this stuff, suggests that CORBA is the
> answer. This is a general cross-platform system similar to the Amiga
> message ports that ARexx uses, but accessible from lots of languages and
> across a network.
>
> This could in principle be linked to our existing ARexx
> system with some bridge software so that ARexx-aware programs become
> CORBA programs.
>
> I only half understand this, but it seems to me that it would be
> possible to run a script on a new Amiga (assuming you have CORBA
> routines in the language you are using) which would control something
> like DPaintV on an A1200. Provided they are networked, that is.
>
> Of course someone will have to write this bridge software - I doubt if
> Samuel will do it himself, he writes for money, not for free.
>
>
> (Cue for Tim Corringham to say it would take five years.) ;-)
No, I don't think this would - more like a couple of months or
so (for a suitably knowlegable developer) ;-)
Tim
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