Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> The way AmigaOS handled this stuff was to use tag lists.
>>
>> A very un-OO way of doing it.
> 
> Um, yes... This was 1992?

That wasn't a criticism.

>> Better would be something like
>> x = new Window();
>> x.title = "Hello there";
>> x.background_color = red;
>> ....
>> x.show();
> 
> Sure. Just as soon as you figure out how to encode that at the machine 
> level in a language-independant way that's efficient to generate and 
> parse...

I think we figured that out a while ago. Besides, doing what I just wrote is 
trivial to wrap into your mechanism, or the win32 mechanism.

> Um... actually I'm pretty sure that's *exactly* what Microsoft says 
> every freakin' day. :-P

Oh? And that's why they invented .NET?

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