Re: This might not be the proper place but...

[David Maynor <dave () 0dayspray com>]

If RPC was implemented perfectly it would bring joy and happiness to
everyone. There would be dancing in the strets, beer for everyone,
parties till the wee hours of the morning! This would be such a great
thing the world would stop for a day, affecting even Paris Hilton's
mating schedule. 

This has not happened. In fact, quite the opposite. RPC is like a plague
that has spread across computing leaving pain, fear, and 0wnage in its
wake. I am convinced that RPC was created as a punishment that Java RMI
coders will spend their afterlife developing in. "NOT JUST RPC, XML-RPC
BABY!!" Aside from the hell like aspects of the demon known as portmap,
linux users will then be subject to things like MS03-026 and MS03-039
which is not nearly as cool as the new rsync hole.

My personal feelings about RPC aside, if a coder is to lazy to use the
language he/she/it is already in, what makes you think they would use a
object to do it? Besides, people do this in windows as well. Does this
mean windows sucks as well? I think so!

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 21:49, Dave Aitel wrote:
> It's because there's no DCOM in Unix. It's why Unix sucks. In Windows, 
> you' d be using a COM object to do this sort of thing instead. In Unix 
> it's impossible to expose an object  to multiple languages easily, and 
> impossible to consume that object with multiple languages. Maybe if unix 
> had a halfway decent RPC system you wouldn't see this?

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