Maxima's interface to GUI's, etc. (was Re: [Maxima] Maxima - new GUI)
Subject: Maxima's interface to GUI's, etc. (was Re: [Maxima] Maxima - new GUI)
From: James Amundson
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:36:45 -0500
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 22:55, C Y wrote:
> --- James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> > One huge issue is the mechanism for communication. My preferred
> > choice at this time is CORBA. I'm sure that will be a controversial
> > choice, but I have some strong arguments for it.
>
> *Peep*. I thought the CORBA lisp bindings were unfinished?
I'm not sure what you mean.
> http://clorb.sourceforge.net/ is the only CORBA-lisp connection I'm
> aware of - is that part of the plan?
Yes.
> Nuts, now I need to take another run at the CORBA docs. Last couple
> times I bounced off. I don't actually oppose it, since what I've heard
> suggests it does a lot of things well in theory, but I will say the one
> or two times I've encountered it a good understanding of it eluded me.
> Can someone point me to a good layman's explanation of what it is
> exactly that CORBA is/does and how it does it?
CORBA does many things. It is easy to find CORBA docs that focus on
topics seemingly unrelated to those at hand here, which can cause
confusion. I like this presentation:
<http://www.grisby.org/presentations/accu2003.pdf>;.
--Jim