This week's hand-outs include seven papers. The Smalltalk article provides background on classical object systems. The next four cover issues in component object systems. The final two describe Tcl and its possible use as a scripting language for network agents.

The Xerox Learning Research Group, "The Smalltalk-80 System", BYTE, August 1981.

Kraig Brockschmidt, "Introducing OLE 2.0, Part I: Windows Objects and the Component Object Model", Microsoft Systems Journal, August 1993.

Microsoft, "The Component Object Model: Technical Overview", White Paper, October 1994.

Kurt Piersol, "A Close-Up of OpenDoc", reprint from BYTE, March 1994.

IBM Corp. Object Technology Products Group, "The System Object Model (SOM) and the Component Object Model (COM): A comparison of technologies from a developer's perspective", White Paper, May 1994.

John K. Ousterhout, "Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language", 1990 Winter USENIX Conference Proceedings.

Nathaniel S. Borenstein, "EMail With A Mind of Its Own: The Safe-Tcl Language for Enabled Mail", submitted to ULPAA '94.

Assignment

Due next week are short group reports by the Black, Blue, Brown, Gray and Green Teams. Each report should be given in no more than 10 minutes. We'll provide an overhead projector.