[BioPython] IDL's

Ewan Birney birney@sanger.ac.uk
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:47:37 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Justin Bradford wrote:

> 
> That's the power of CORBA. I could come back and write a replacement for
> his C object in Perl (or C++, or Python, etc) following the same IDL,
> which your program would be able to use seamlessly. I could completely
> change the back-end implementation, and your program could use it without
> a single line of code needing modification.
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
 
Right on Justin. CORBA is incredibly powerful when used correctly.


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