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Re: Guile, CORBA and GNOME

Keith Wright <kwright@tiac.net> writes:

> What is the advantage of going through GOOPS instead of
> straight to Scheme?

1. Conceptual advantage:

CORBA is a distributed object system.  It is nice and simple to treat
CORBA objects the same way as other objects.

2. Practical advantage:

The time-critical parts of GOOPS are implemented efficiently.  If you
let a generic function operate upon a CORBA object, there will be an
extremely short path to executing the relevant code on the C level.
Going "through GOOPS" would be as short as (or shorter) going through
Scheme.
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