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discreteevent
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Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf]
" the vaporware "object-oriented operating system" concepts”
COM is Windows and COM is about as purely object oriented as you can get. It's not vaporware.
DaiPlusPlus
on Feb 11, 2017
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COM can be said to be overly complicated (at least not as bad a CORBA). I think WinMD is a step in the right direction, but both COM and WinMD are userland constructs and neither particularly pervade the OS (e.g. you can't pipe COM objects)
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COM is Windows and COM is about as purely object oriented as you can get. It's not vaporware.