Posted Jul 8, 2008 23:08 UTC (Tue) by alextingle (subscriber, #20593)
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Yeah, they reinvented the only parts of CORBA that CORBA got right!
Google releases Protocol Buffers
Posted Jul 9, 2008 21:55 UTC (Wed) by njs (guest, #40338)
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Err, I seem to recall there being all sorts of horrible decisions in IIOP's encoding design?
Length-prefixing without chunking, screwy games with endianness negotiation, structure
*padding* -- in a *network protocol* -- that doesn't even match any real machine's padding...?