[omniORB] scheme

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 14 December, "Chung, David" wrote:

> 	(1) I am just curious to  how long did it take you to write python
> ORB and the IDL compiler?  I'd assume that most efforts were spent on
> writing the ORBpy, right?  

It didn't take too long to write the Python ORB itself -- three or
four months I suppose. Most of the time I spent on the IDL compiler
was writing the new front end. Now that's done, writing back-ends is
pretty easy.

> 	(2) Is there a plan to implement a CosTransaction service?  With
> recovery, and other good stuff (that is not par of CORBA spec).

We have no plans to do a transaction service ourselves, but there is
one commercial one available for omniORB. See:

  http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/contribapp.html#OTSArjuna

> P.S.	
> 	There are more similarities than meets the eye between Scheme and
> python.  See  http://www.python.org/doc/pythonVSscheme.html 

That reads to me as saying that they're significantly different. It's
true that to a large extent you can use either language as if it was
the other, but I think that rather perverts the intent of both
languages.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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