🚀 go-pugleaf

Jacob L. Cybulski writes:
>In article <C1zv2w.63L@csisun.uucp>, jburnes@csisun.uucp (Jim Burnes) writes:
>|> 
>|> I have an idea.  Its probably already been thought of.  Why
>|> don't we as developers come up with a POSIX/ISO/IEEE portable
>|> class library for GUI's.  
>|> Suggest away...
>|> 
>|> Jim Burnes
>|> jburnes@compusci.com
>
>This sounds like an excellent idea for GNU!
>
>Jacob

The model that Jim Burnes suggests is most like that of the Object
Management Group, a consortium of a few hundred companies, both
clients and vendors. They have an entire object-oriented reference
architecture and are building the standards step-wise. They have
completed their object request broker (CORBA) standard and are
working on v.2 of that, and are working on object model, standard
object services, C++ bindings, etc. as well.

There are many arguments about the success and failure chances of
organizations like the OMG, the quality of what they produce, and
the both the quickness of response and the likelihood of cooperation,
both pro and con. GUI interoperability standards are on their list,
however.

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Edward Jung, Software Architect     edwardj@microsoft.com
Advanced Systems, Microsoft Corp.