[Freeciv-Dev] Re: C vs C++ vs Java

[Andrew Sutton <ansutton@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:22 am, Ross W. Wetmore wrote:
> At 04:40 PM 01/12/03 +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:
> There are at least two aspects you might be missing, Andy.
>
> The first is that when the same code runs on both the client and the server
> you don't need to ship the object code, just the non-transient data fields.
> But the equivalent object down to byte order is run on either end so there
> are no behavioural surprises. You get the equivalent effect to shipping
> full objects. Java RMI, which is basically RPC but trying to act like COM
> or CORBA, works this way giving you the chance to build a distributed App
> that you can think of as running in a single environment. Also, there is
> only one build, and one shipping product to be distributed everywhere.
> (Aside: Losing sight of the network, tends to produce poorly performing
> Apps with some key design features missing, so don't do this naively :-).

yeah... that was just a tangent. i really don't expect to write something 
that flexible because it really isn't that necessary. it was just an 
interesting idea.

andy