On Tuesday 12 February 2002 22:39, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> ... and of course, some of the ORBS provide HTTP gateway capabilities
> to tunnel IIOP over HTTP
You can tunnel IP over HTTP, too :-)
I guess there's nothing stopping somebody from tunneling IP over CORBA over
HTTP over TCP/IP over pigeons...
This is a different form of the Turing Tarpit, I reckon: that place where
debates over the expressive power of programming languages go to, when
everyone points out that all the languages can express the same set of
algorithms.
ABS
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