Guile and CORBA?

James F Hall (jhall@accessmgmt.com)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:17:23 -0500

I received this email from a person who was commenting on GNU Robots.
Can Guile be accessed using CORBA?

(I must admit that I have never done anything with CORBA, and I don't
really know what it is. Anyone have a two-sentence description of
CORBA, to set the stage for me?)

-Jim

[forwarded message:]
>Hi there, I've just been looking at your GNU robots page. I think it
>sounds near ideal as a test domain for some genetic programming stuff
>I'm working on. Unfortunately, it would be hard for me to interface into
>it since I'm unlikely to be doing anything in Scheme. However, have you
>considered producing an API which could be accessed via CORBA? This
>would allow me to write code to control the robot, and others could
>control thier robot in thier favourite language; not everyone wants to
>write in scheme.
>
>I'd be interested to hear your thoughts,