> Why do we do all this work with stubs, why has so much work been done
> with implementing the various CORBA implementations?
> Why is the (Correct me if I'm wrong), network archietecture not routable?

> Why don't we just use shared libs or dll's to share functions?

> Finally, I might add that while you may be able to answer most of these
> questions now, what I am asking for is why was this developed in the
> _first_place_? (Surely there was some document specifying a need, and a
> solution, ie, the Design Rationale).