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chrisd
on from the what's-a-nice-coder-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this dept.
twigman writes "MSDN has an interview with Ximian CTO Miguel de Icaza about Mono and past Ximian projects. It's a surprisingly objective discussion, definitely worth a read." Of course we're not surprised Miguel is objective...
Miguel is the smart fellow
by
Chloe+Dubois
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· Score: 3, Troll
I, as a Linux user, am quite glad that the GNOME project continues to prosper as it is doing despite the constant turmoiling between them in KDE. While many people cast off GNOME the project since KDE appears more matur and featureful, this is mainly because GNOME is trying for more interesting features that in the long run will be best for Linux in the desktop.
This Bonobo architecture is exactly the extension of the classic Unix philosophie of small components that is long needed. My fiancé Yves, who works often programming for Windows, often complains of the oldness of the pipe and socket IPC systems in Unix, which while powerful, are dreadfully simple. When I try to convince him to look at Linux this is his grandest complaint. Unlike Microsoft's COM and GNOME's CORBA-based Bonobo systèmes, there is no handling of the interface, inheritance or other high-level object oriented structures necessary for advanced high-level programming.
KDE's DCOP and KParts are rather incomplete imitations of CORBA. While I can understand the need to avoid the overheading of CORBA, with modern ORBs like GNOME's ORBit this is negligible, and on modern 2GHz machines who cares about the tiny loss in performance? CORBA has far more of the flexibilitie, allowing for not only better network independence and component structure, but also very important Language independence! This makes Mono very easy to integrate for GNOME since it can already be programmed for any language in common usage. KDE's equivalents are no comparison.
I am really happy to see that Miguel and his GNOME project are getting such publicity even from the "evil" Microsoft. GNOME is really Linux's best bet for the desktop in the immediate future.
(You must forgive my english, it is not my best language ^_^)
The MS APIs have been reasonably consistent since Windows 3.
Such as, for example, the backporting of Win32 from NT to Windows 3.x. Microsoft's API are consistent. They have always been consistent. Big Brother Bill tells me so. Production of boots has increased 75%.
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This Bonobo architecture is exactly the extension of the classic Unix philosophie of small components that is long needed. My fiancé Yves, who works often programming for Windows, often complains of the oldness of the pipe and socket IPC systems in Unix, which while powerful, are dreadfully simple. When I try to convince him to look at Linux this is his grandest complaint. Unlike Microsoft's COM and GNOME's CORBA-based Bonobo systèmes, there is no handling of the interface, inheritance or other high-level object oriented structures necessary for advanced high-level programming.
KDE's DCOP and KParts are rather incomplete imitations of CORBA. While I can understand the need to avoid the overheading of CORBA, with modern ORBs like GNOME's ORBit this is negligible, and on modern 2GHz machines who cares about the tiny loss in performance? CORBA has far more of the flexibilitie, allowing for not only better network independence and component structure, but also very important Language independence! This makes Mono very easy to integrate for GNOME since it can already be programmed for any language in common usage. KDE's equivalents are no comparison.
I am really happy to see that Miguel and his GNOME project are getting such publicity even from the "evil" Microsoft. GNOME is really Linux's best bet for the desktop in the immediate future.
(You must forgive my english, it is not my best language ^_^)
Sincerely yours,
Chloë
The MS APIs have been reasonably consistent since Windows 3.
Such as, for example, the backporting of Win32 from NT to Windows 3.x. Microsoft's API are consistent. They have always been consistent. Big Brother Bill tells me so. Production of boots has increased 75%.
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