standard GNOME interfaces for easily creating reusable,
language independent components, controls and compound
documents. This technology is known as <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/tech/bonobo.php3">Bonobo<a>.
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/tech/bonobo.php3">Bonobo</a>.
Interfaces to Bonobo exist for C, Perl, Python, and
Java.
For example, an XML parsing Bonobo/CORBA component would be
inefficient compared to a C API.
+** Another explanation
+
+ I recently explained our motivations to Dave Winer, and he posted
+ it <a
+ href="http://scriptingnews.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1275">here</a>
+
** Microsoft's .NET
The Microsoft .NET initiative is confusing because it is a