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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: BridgeWorks -> TIG
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 01:25:38 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 08:20:28 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> ...
>          <method>
>              <name>add</name> <args>
>                  <arg>
>                      <name>a</name> <type>LongWord</type>
>                      <pass>Reference</pass> <use>In</use>
>                  </arg>
>                  <arg>
>                      <name>b</name> <type>LongWord</type>
>                      <pass>Reference</pass> <use>In</use>
>                  </arg>
>                  <arg>
>                      <name>res</name> <type>LongWord</type>
>                      <pass>Reference</pass> <use>Out</use>
>                  </arg>
>              </args>
>          </method>
> ...

This looks so much like the D-Bus introspection format
<https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/>,
<https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#introspection-format>

See also Varlink <https://varlink.org/>, which uses a JSON-based
channel data format.