Re: [Firebird-devel] Reference counters in API

[Kjell R. <kje...@da...>]

Vlad Khorsun skriver:
>> 1. FB is multi platform, while IUnknown is inherently tied to Microsoft.
>> (Or am I wrong about this?)
>
>      Absolutely wrong.
>
>> 2. IUnknown compatibility would imply a lot of other stuff that FB
>> doesn't want, re. COM etc.
>
>      Wrong again.
>
>> Although that may not be required per se,
>> just because of IUnknown compatibility, it is in people's minds very
>> tightly coupled with COM. This is not good. FB is not a COM object and
>> shouldn't be. Ever. Please. ;-)
>
>      Nobody going ever think about COM.

So, would you say that this article is misleading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUnknown

Kjell
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