Am I totally missing something or hasn't been the binary RPC
of that style been dead ever since SUNRPC? Hasn't the eulogy
been delivered by CORBA? Haven't folks realized that S-exprs
are really quite good for data serialization in the heterogeneous
environments (especially when they are called JSON) and you
really shouldn't be made to figure out how large is the integer
on a host foo?

Just because the world is full of XML zealots does not mean that XDR (ONC RPC), NDR (DCE RPC) and others are dead. Neither of these makes you figure out how large the integer on host foo is (thats half the point).
I personally like the XDR standard (I can do without NDR and BER/DER).

Roman.

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/

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