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The problem is not just due to the implementation language.  Just because
our systems are iplemented in C does not mean they will work together.
After all, it seems that 90% of languages today are ultimately implemented
in C!  There was a nice paper at OOPSLA '90 called "When Objects Collide"
that described problems with combining CLOS libraries.  It is necessary
for interfaces to be the same, and this has only a little to do with what
the underlying languages are.

The OMG effort is providing a set of standard interfaces that programs
can use to talk to each other.  It explictly permits programs to be written
in any language.  Writing everything in one language helps make for
common interfaces when the code is all running in the same address space,
but I'm not sure it helps that much when you are talking about distributed
applictions.

Ralph Johnson -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign