[Jprogramming] JHS meets MathJax

[John Baker]

Interesting.  If this becomes well accepted COM may have broken out of its
MS jail.


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Stefano Lanzavecchia <stf at apl.it> wrote:

> > I had heard about COM in Win8.
> >
> > Is it still being promoted as a development target? It's been tolerated
> in .Net
> > for ages but always prefaced with phrases like "legacy technology."
> > COM's main drawback is that it has not caught on outside of Microsoft.
> For
> > those of us interested in portable programming that's a big negative.
>
> Well well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3957049/what-is-xpcom-xpcom-vs-com
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom/index.html
>
> COM, as a paradigm, lives and thrives.
> --
> Stefano
>
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