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Re: ANN: "Interacting with CORBA" article
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 15:19:28 +0000, Jason Trenouth <jason@harlequin.com>
wrote:
> I guess I'll have to do that since the answer isn't widely known. Naturally,
> I'll report back if I find anything.
>
> > Scripting in CORBA is new to many of the old OMG hands who think only
> > of Java and C++. If it takes an RFP for a CORBA-specific scripting
> > language to break the ice and get scripting languages on the map,
> > what's wrong with that? I believe the Python mapping was around for
> > quite awhile before this RFP, and yet thanks to that RFP, we now have
> > an official Python mapping. This is goodness. If someone now comes in
> > with an RFC (not RFP) for the Perl mapping that's been around for
> > years, and the mapping complete, I would expect it to be adopted too.
So, after an indecently brief bit of research, it looks as if this _was_ the
main aim: to encourage bindings to languages with a scripting flavour. What
isn't clear is if this is an ongoing subprocess or whether it is closed. eg
whether other scripting language specifications, eg for TCL, would be under
its umbrella or not.
Since this is a CORBA/Dylan cross-thread, I should point out that Dylan
doesn't qualify as a scripting language in the terms of the RFP's "problem
statement" since it does not contain "eval".
__Jason
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