OpenBinder is the core technology that ex-Be engineers started at Be, Inc. as the "next generation BeOS", finished implementing at PalmSource as one of the key foundations of the Cobalt system, and is now being open-sourced running for Linux. Dianne Hackborn, a legendary engineer throughout the BeOS history and later a key engineer in the creation of PalmOS Cobalt, is describing OpenBinder below and then a mini-interview follows.
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2006-02-15
Exceptions would be nice if it were possible to implement them without hideous run-time overhead. Checking return values isn't really so hard, though.
Why is making a component framework "totally OO" a mistake? How do you even define "totally OO"?