A.3. Déjà Vu All Over Again
For those of us either old enough to have experienced it or interested enough in the history of computing to have learned about it, the vision of unified objects is quite familiar. The desire to merge the programming and computational models of local and remote computing is not new.
Communications protocol development has tended to follow two paths. One path has emphasized integration with the current language model. The other path has emphasized solving the problems inherent in distributed computing. Both are necessary, and successful advances in distributed computing synthesize elements from both camps.
Historically, the language approach has been the less influential of the two camps. Every ten years (approximately), ...
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