I feel like I'm jumping from an imperative coding style, to functional,
or from C to C++, in that I wonder why we use this.

I have searched for ages on www.omg.org, but I could not find anything
like a Design Rationale for the effort.

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).

I have poked around the omg.org website, but it seems to have a heck
alot of technical implementation issues, and I can't find the wood for
the trees.

        Thankyou.