>>68
Congratulations, you have just described Java and the majority of open source, all of which fail at componentization. Next you're going to tell us "services" are for enforcing a subcription model to make everyone pay $$$.

>>67
One of the more basic differences between component-oriented and just object-oriented languages are what gets treated as "first-class". CO languages may or may not be OO, but in general, current CO based languages are also OO based.

Most of this thread show why industry has so little faith in the ability of the eduational system - NFI where they're going or what they're doing on the leading edge, 5 years behind otherwise.

>> And let's face it, CS people couldn't do a real mathematical proof if their lives depended on it. <-- troll!

But it's true! :O