Object Management Group I think. Better known as the inventors of UML.
replyAlso BPMN, CORBA and UPOS/JavaPOS.
replyIt's funny that you can legitimately just add " - OMG!" in the slang acronym meaning after any of its creations' names.
UML was phase two of OMG. It originally developed CORBA.
reply"The horror, the horror."
replyForgive the ignorant question, what made CORBA terribile?
replyI only used it during university and it seemed overengineered but it mostly worked, and I vaguely recall IDL to be nice.
I'm guessing interop was actually atrocious?
Synchronisation based on spooky action at a distance of mutable objects.
replyCORBA had the concept of distributed objects which is a terrible idea in practice.
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