Subject: Re: corba or sockets? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: 30 Oct 2000 15:20:33 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3181908033332322@naggum.net> * Michael Livshin <mlivshin@yahoo.com> | do you imply that it *was* possible to come up with a better wire | protocol for CORBA as it is, or that the whole concept of "remote | procedure call" (i.e. the CORBA semantics) is not an adequate | abstraction in situations involving non-trivial network latencies? Yes, that the remote procedure call model is fundamentally flawed. It is, however, possible to do remote procedure calls intelligently, but it requires a programming language that can deal with unfinished computations and actually calculate with them for a while. This is not terribly difficult stuff, but not trivial, either. #:Erik -- Does anyone remember where I parked Air Force One? -- George W. Bush