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Jonathan Edwards (edwards@world.std.com) wrote:
> What I wonder about HP-DST is why anyone would want to lobotomize Smalltalk 
> down to the level of C++ by imposing IDL on it. 

There is no real need for a Smalltalk programmer to worry about IDL : HP-DST
provides a mechanism for generating an IDL definition out of Smalltalk class
definition. 

The good news about using IDL is that your code can talk to non Smalltalk
programs...

Jean-Jacques Moreau.
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